Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Achillea millefolium
Common name
Yarrow, Milfoil
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, grassy areas, disturbed sites and roadsides, and moist gullies. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park and tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 1 m tall, stoloniferous. Mat-forming. Stems cylindrical, finely ridged, hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, in a basal rosette and alternating up the stems, 2-15 cm long, 8-50 mm wide, deeply dissected, almost compound, with 31 or more dissected lobes per leaf, each lobe 0.5-2 cm long, to 1 mm wide, surfaces hairy to almost hairless. Flower heads below the 'petals' 4-10 mm in diameter, with 4-7 white to pink, reddish pink, or mauve 'petals' 1-4 mm long, and yellow to white centres with 10-20 florets. Flower heads in dense clusters 40-150 mm in diameter. Flowers Spring to Autumn.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Achillea~millefolium (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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