"Achillea millefolium "
Yarrow, milfoil

 

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-  Winter- autumn . Perennial plant of the Daisy family - Compositae - up to 60 cm. Erect stems, hairy, grooved. Upper leaves till 15 cm, twice or three times pinnate, lanceolate, sessile. Lower ones till 25 cm, petiolated. Flowers about 6 mm in heads, gathered in corymbes.By the side of the roads, meadows and grasslands..
 
 
-  Water every two days during bloom, moderately without flooding the land.
 
 
- For flowerbeds  and stony places. As a medicinal plant and a dry flower.
 
 
- Sun or demishade.
 
   
- By means of division of the rhizomes in March, or cutting  in April or May. It is convenient to pinch  the exceeding  branches to favour a harmonic growth. It also convenient  to cut the floral stems, when the flowers have dried of.
 
 
- Porous land, well drained , a mixture of garden soil and sand.
 
   
Medicinal plant . See medicinal properties.
 


Another species of "Achillea"

 

Among 90 species, aproximately, of genus Achillea we will mention the following:

 

Achilea ageratum ---------------------Sweet nancy

Achillea argentea ------------------ .................

Achillea chamaemelifolia ------------ ..................

Achillea erba-rotta moschata ------- ..............

Achilea filipendulina -------------------................

Achillea ligustica ---------------------- ..............

Achillea nobilis ----------------------- ...............

Achillea odorata --------------------- ................

Achilea ptarmica --------------------- Sneeze wort

Achillea pyrenaica ---------------- ................

Achillea santolina ----------------- .................

Achillea setacea ----------------- .................

Achillea sibirica ------------------- ................

Achilea tomentosa --------------------- Woolly yarrow

 

 

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