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Yarrow ( Achillea millefolium ) flowers June – November so its blooms still brighten campus grasslands. Typically of the Asteraceae, Yarrow `flowers’ are clusters of tube-florets surrounded by 5 ray-florets masquerading as petals. These capitula gather further into dense heads, or corymbs , resembling the umbels of the Apiaceae (ex-Umbelliferae). Also like several umbellifers (e.g. Angelica, some Hedge Parsleys and Burnet Saxifrages), Yarrow’s flower-colour ranges from white to pink and even purple. Finely divided, bi- or tripinnate leaves (millefolium=`thousand leaves’) complete a superficial resemblance to many Apiaceae. Coincidence or convergent evolution? On campus, Yarrow certainly occupies similar niches to some umbellifers, even mingling with Wild Carrot, where to buy chafing dish Daucus carota (below right: with Ribwort Plantain as well):
Plants spread by stolons to create where to buy chafing dish same-coloured clonal patches, but neighbouring patches can differ greatly, as if some had been splashed with blood. where to buy chafing dish Perhaps this led -by `sympathy’ – to the old medicinal use of Yarrow to staunch bleeding (alternative names: Staunchwort and Carpenter’s Weed). In `Wild Flowers of Britain’, Phillips explains `Achillea’ by Achilles’ use of Yarrow to treat his warriors’ wounds. Much good did it do him….
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