yarrow
Achillea millefolium
RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Herb
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer, autumn
- Bloom color
- White , pink
- Foliage color
- Green
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), also called common yarrow, is a perennial for borders, pollinator gardens, meadows, and rock gardens. It is hardy to USDA zone 3, or down to -40°F (-40°C). This plant likes full sun to part shade and dry to wet, sandy, loamy, or chalky soil. Deer and rabbits tend to pass it by. Flat clusters of small white flowers sit above feathery, gray-green, aromatic leaves. Butterflies and bees visit the blooms for nectar.
Pairs well with Nodding onion, Switchgrass, and Creeping phlox.
Native range
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, and 23 more places. See all 27
Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia, Arctic, Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Føroyar, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Magadan, NW. Balkan Pen., Primorye, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, Tadzhikistan, Tuva, Türkiye, and Yakutiya.