Achillea millefolium

Achillea millefolium

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Genus	Achillea

2n =

Origin : area of origin

wild or cultivated

Uses summary

Description

• 1, plant habit; 2, middle part of stem with leaf; 3, upper part of flowering stem; 4, ray flower and involucral bract; 5, disk flower and receptacle scale; 6, achene from disk flower; 7, achene from ray flower (PROSEA, Iskak Syamsudin)
  1, plant habit; 2, middle part of stem with leaf; 3, upper part of flowering stem; 4, ray flower and involucral bract; 5, disk flower and receptacle scale; 6, achene from disk flower; 7, achene from ray flower (PROSEA, Iskak Syamsudin)

Uses

HUNDRED-LEAVED GRASS. MILFOIL. NOSEBLEED. SANGUINARY. THOUSAND-SEAL. YARROW. Europe, Asia and America. In some parts of Sweden, yarrow is said to be employed as a substitute for hops in the preparation of beer, to which it is supposed to add an intoxicating effect.

Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.

Links

• BHL
• FAO Ecocrop
• Feedipedia
• Grieve's herbal
• GRIN
• IPNI
• Mansfeld
• Moerman, Native American Ethnobotany
• Multilingual Plant Name Database
• NewCrop Purdue
• Plant List
• Plants for a future
• PROSEA sur Pl@ntUse
• PROTA on Pl@ntUse
• Tela Botanica
• Useful Tropical Plants Database
• Wikipédia
• Wikiphyto