Family: Asteraceae
Achillea tomentosa
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 897 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Woolly yarrow.
Description:
Perennial herb to 40 cm high, stoloniferous; stems erect, unbranched, terete, striate, pubescent; basal leaves not forming a rosette, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, bipinnatisect, 5-8 cm long, 8-16 mm wide, sparsely to densely villous; rhachis c. 1 mm wide, entire; ultimate lobes spreading in more than one plane; cauline leaves similar, 2-8 cm long, decreasing up the stem, mostly pinnatisect, villous.
Capitula in dense compound corymbs with naked branches, 4-6 mm diam.; involucres 4-5 mm long; bracts ovate, rigid, keeled, straw-coloured, pubescent; ray florets 5; ligules shallowly 3-lobed, c. 2 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, yellow.
Achenes glabrous, to 3 mm long.
Distribution:
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A garden escape naturalised on roadsides in a few localities.
S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL, KI. Native to south-western Europe.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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