tansy
Tanacetum vulgare
RHS Plants for Pollinators
USDA zones3 to 8
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles dry to moist soil
Size1 to 3 feet tall9 to 18 inches wide
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Clumping
- Bloom season
- Summer, autumn
- Bloom color
- Yellow
- Foliage color
- Green
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) is an herb for pollinator gardens and low maintenance beds. It is hardy to USDA zone 3, or down to -40°F (-40°C). This plant likes full or part sun and dry to moist soil of most types. Bees visit its fragrant yellow flowers, which open in summer and again in autumn. It sits low on the menu for deer. Give it room, since the clumps grow quickly.
Pairs well with Purple top, Moerheim Beauty sneezeweed, and Album culver’s root.
Native range
Europe, Central Asia, Asia, Altay, and 21 more places. See all 25
Europe, Central Asia, Asia, Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Corse, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, NW. Balkan Pen., Primorye, Sakhalin, Sicilia, Tuva, Türkiye, Xinjiang, and Yakutiya.