PlantsFlowers
Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Chicago-region native. Suited to zone 6a.
Flat white flower heads on a ferny native
EasyFlowers
- Light
- Full sun
- Moisture
- Dry–medium
- Mature size
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1 ft
- Bloom or harvest
- Flowers Jun–Sep
- How it spreads
- Rhizome
- What to buy
- The straight white species, not a dyed cultivar, if the job is a native planting.
- When to plant
- Apr–May or Sep
In the design
Hot parkway. It will spread. Colored garden yarrows are the same species in costume; use them only when the brief is not a native ecosystem.
