Common Name: Yarrow, Common Yarrow, Milfoil, Gordaldo, Nosebleed Plant, Old Man’s Pepper, Devil’s Nettle, Thousand-leaf and Soldier’s Woundwort.

Scientific Name: Achillea millefolium

Family: Asteraceae

Origins: North America (native)

Flowering Time: June to September

Habitat: Fields and roadsides

Range: Found throughout most of North Amercia.

Use: Used to treat fevers, hemorrahaging and a poultice for rashes. First Nations people made a tea from it to cure stomach disorders. Used as food by the eastern cottontail, white-tailed deer and the ruffed grouse.

Sources:

“Achillea millefolium“. Flora of North America (FNA). Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 9 March 2018 – via eFloras.org.

Chambers, Brenda, Karen Legasy, Cathy V. Bentley, Shayna LaBelle-Beadman, and Emma Thurley. Forest Plants of Central Ontario. Edmonton, Alta., Canada: Lone Pine, 1996. Print.

Niering, William A., Nancy C. Olmstead, and John W. Thieret. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Print.