Achillea millefolium yarrow

Asteraceae Aster or Sunflower Family (also known as the Composite Family: Compositae)

Key Words: Composite Flowers in disk-like heads

Heads have both RAY & DISK Flowers, ray flowers-white, pink, purple, read, or blue

Family ID traits:

• What seems to be a “flower” is really a bouquet of many flowers
• Can have either DISK or RAY flowers, or both in a “flower head”
• Have green modified leaves – bracts – surrounding the flower head.

Habitat: widespread, low to high elevations, shrub-steppe & open forest. Perennial. Late spring bloomer