Common Yarrow

Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium

Wild Common Yarrow is a nice looking plant with white flowers, however, the gardening folks have created a thousand different colors of this plant. It looks like it's all the same species, just different cultivars.

I tend to find it in fields and along edges and fence rows in the summertime. Its lacy, fernlike foliage is distinctive and is probably one of the reasons that it has been cultivated. The white flowers are small and nicely shaped, so the breeders probably thought that it be a pretty good garden flower if they changed the color, which they have done quite successfully.

A useful fact about Yarrow is that it can be made into a usable insect repellent. Click here for the recipe.

Finely divided leaf