Common Yarrow

(Achillea millefolium)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect, aromatic, sparsely branched perennial herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot and weakly spreading rhizomes

Leaf anatomy: Leaves alternately arranged, cauline, villous to wooly villous, pinnately dissected

Reproduction: Numerous compact terminal corymb inflorescences per plant, rays of flowers pistillate, white to pink in color

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}