Day: November 11, 2014

Achillea millefolium. N.O. Compositae. Synonym ► Milfoil, Nosebleed, Thousand-leaf. Habitat ► A wayside herb, also often seen in the pasture and meadow lands of Europe and the United States. Features ► Yarrow has a rough, angular stem, and grows from twelve to eighteen inches in height. The alternate leaves are pinnatifid, clasp the stem at the base, are slightly woolly, and are cut into very fine segments. The flowers are small, white (occasionally pink or purplish), daisy-like, and bloom in dense, flattened, terminal corymbs, appearing at their best in July….