Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (23/06/2020) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Nothing else quite like it. I sowed a load of this as it's good for the horses.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (13/06/2020) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Can have white or quite pink flowered umbels, sometimes even from the same plant.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (23/06/2020) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Has other names like Old Man's Baccy, Soldiers' Woundwort and Nose-Bleed!
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (13/06/2020) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Young buds are very distinctive.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (06/06/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). This one is a pale pink.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (06/06/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank).
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (05/08/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Showing the inner disc florets which as they develop kind of overshadow the aging outer rays.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (05/08/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Makro shot. Inner disk floret - the orange filament and anther of the usually single male surrounded by females.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (10/06/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). A young developing flower head. Young plants are very hairy.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (23/06/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). A young developing flower head - and the young stems are hairy too.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (13/06/2020) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Not far from flowering, the buds are very distinctive.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (13/06/2020) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Very distinctive leaves. These are young and will unfurl as the plant ages.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (07/05/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). A load of baby leaves - they are low-growing at first.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (10/06/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Makro shot of an older leaf. Leaflets are all tipped with a fine point.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (10/06/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Makro shot of a younger leaf.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (23/06/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Leaves gradually unfurling as the flowerheads start forming.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (10/06/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). A baby plant showing variability in the development of the leaves, young ones are brush-like, older ones unfurl.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (24/08/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Another baby.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (10/06/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Close up of a baby, as yet to unfurl, leaf.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (14/08/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Outer ray florets have gone and this is turning to seed.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (14/08/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Turning to seed.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (05/08/2021) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank). Just going over.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (26/07/2023) Southbank Equestrian, Henfield (arena bank).
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (11/07/2022) Poynings, just opposide church near bus stop, W Sussex. This is a cultivar, put in here for interest-sake. There are in fact many garden cultivars of yarrow, but true wild Yarrow has white or pinkish flowers.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (11/07/2022) Poynings, just opposide church near bus stop, W Sussex.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (11/07/2022) Poynings, just opposide church near bus stop, W Sussex. Leaves of the yellow cultivar.
Yarrow / Millfoil (Achillea millefolium) (11/07/2022) Poynings, just opposide church near bus stop, W Sussex. Leaves of the yellow cultivar. They seem downy-hairy which the wild one is not.