Yarrow

 Achillea millefolium 

Siting Information

• Date: June 10, 2021
• Time: 12:15 p.m.
• Location: Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area (100 Museum Road, Stevens, PA 17578)
• Habitat: field restoration area north of the visitor center
• Weather: approximately 75 degrees Fahrenheit, some clouds, humid

 Each individual flower of Yarrow has about five petals with a yellow center.  Those tiny petals are 3-toothed at the edge.  The flowers grow in fairly flat cluster on long stems.  The Yarrow plant I identified here was about three feet tall.

The leaves of Yarrow grow in an alternative pattern and are finely divided.  Each leaf is lance-shaped then divided into tiny lance-shaped leaflets which are deeply lobed. 

 (Newcomb, 2011, p. 220)