COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 
formed of one row of oblong, purplish bracts, united into 
a cup, with a few short, loose, and spreading ones at the base. 
Achenes dark, wedge-shaped, covered with fine, upward-pointing 
bristles ; the pappus is a ring of stiff, bristly hairs. (Fig. 337.) 
Means of contral 
Small areas newly infestéd should be pulled while in earliest 
flower, allowing no seed to develop. Ground on which plants have 
matured should be burned over, in order to destroy the seed on the 
surface. 
YARROW 
Achilléa Millefolium, L. 
Other English names: Milfoil, Thousand-leaf, Sanguinary, Blood- 
wort, Soldier’s Woundwort, Nosebleed Weed. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by rootstocks. 
Time of bloom: June to October. 
Seed-time: August to November. 
Range: Throughout North America, and in 
most parts of the world. 
Habitat: Meadows, pastures, roadsides, and 
waste places. 
A most hardy weed, thriving in nearly any 
kind of soil and indifferent to tropic heat or 
arctic cold; well named for the invulnerable 
Achilles, who is said to have used the herb for 
the cure of his Myrmidons wounded at the 
siege of Troy. However that may be, the 
plant is still valued medicinally and its dried 
leaves and flowers bring three to five cents a 
pound in the drug market. 
Stem one to two feet tall, stiffly erect, simple 
or sometimes forked above, webby-haired or 
nearly smooth. Leaves alternate, the lower 
ones sometimes ten inches long, lance-shaped 
in outline, deep green, twice pinnatifid and 
# the segments finely toothed; stem leaves 
'1¢. 338. — Yarrow aa f ° . 
(Achillea Millefolium). less divided, narrow and sessile; the foliage is 
Xt. strong-scented, its taste biting and_ bitter. 
