CautionNot food
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Feathery aromatic leaves and a flat plate of tiny white flowers. Wound herb and fever tea.
- Marks
- Feathery aromatic leaves; flat flower plate
- Size
- 1–3 ft
- Habitat
- Dry roadsides, old pastures, gravel edges.
- Season
- June–September.
- Frequency
- common
A perennial with finely divided, ferny leaves that smell herbal when crushed. Flower heads are dense, flat-topped clusters of small daisy-like florets, usually white, sometimes pink.
Uses
See Grow → Apothecary. Fresh leaf poultice on a shallow bleed. Tea or tincture for a fever sweat. Not in pregnancy.
Lookalikes
Queen Anne’s lace
Daucus carota
Wild carrot. Hairy stem, one dark floret in the white lace, carrot-scented taproot.
CautionEdible
Poison hemlock
Conium maculatum
Purple-splotched hollow stems, lacy leaves, white umbels. Deadly. Do not touch your mouth after handling.
DeadlyDo not eat