Achillea Also Known As Yarrow

Someone asked me: why are you posting yarrow? Is it your favorite flower? No, I responded. My favorite flower, at least for this year, is cosmos.

So why am I posting about yarrow? I realized I am posting in order to learn yarrow’s health benefits. Here are a few:

• Improve digestion
• Accelerate wound healing
• Alleviate colds or the flu with yarrow tea
• Reduce inflammation

You can learn more about the healing properties of white yarrow (yarrow millefolium) elsewhere.

Yarrow comes in a variety of colors. In my backyard I have big yellow yarrow flowers that are currently in bloom in July. In the front of my house I have white yarrow. Yarrows are perennials. The Latin name is Achillea.

Pictured is achillea millefolium (white yarrow), coreopsis, and lamb’s ear flowers. I painted the illustration with watercolor, gouache, and collage for the bright pink lamb’s ear flowers.