Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Achillea millefolium
Yarrow, Milfoil
Asteraceae
Woodland, grassy areas, disturbed sites and roadsides, and moist gullies. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park and tablelands. Occasionally elsewhere.
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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