Scientific name: Achillea millefolium L.
Common name: Yarrow
Description
Habit: Perennial to 40 cm high.
Stems: Creeping, with numerous short leafy shoots, and erect flowering stems.
Leaves: Alternate, woolly, oblong, 2-pinnate, leaflets crowded, linear with toothed margins.
Flowers: Flower-heads small, numerous, 6-9mm across, in corymbs; involucral bracts with a dark margin, overlapping and in several rows; outer florets radiating, white, short and broad, about 6; inner florets tubular, white to mauve.
Fruits: An achene; pappus absent.
Habitat: Roadsides, pastures, rough grazing, occasionally on walls, banks, sand dunes or seacliffs.
Distribution: Common.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No