USDA Zones: 4 - 9
Light: sun - shade; tolerates full sun in Zones 6 and colder if kept moist
Form: Flower Spikes, Spreading
Height:  9 inches
Width:  12 inches
Flower Colors: dainty blue flowers; some varieties have purple leaves
Bloom Time: late spring - summer

Special Features:
Attractive Foliage
Beds/Borders
Easy to Grow
Flowers
Rapid Grower
Showy Foliage

Even if you've never gardened before, you can grow yarrow with little effort. Yarrow is an amazing perennial that is hardy throughout most of the United States and can withstand heat, drought, and cold.

It's valued in the garden for its ferny, gray-green or dark green, spicy-scented foliage and showy, flat-topped clusters of flowers in pink, red, white, or yellow appearing from late spring to early fall. Fern-leaf yarrow (Achillea filipendulina) is one of the best flowers for drying. In fact, it will dry right in the vase. Common yarrow (Achillea millefolium) dries less well but like fern-leaf yarrow, is excellent for cutting. Common yarrow can be invasive in some conditions.

Notable Varieties

• Ajuga reptans alba has green leaves and white flowers.
• 'Atropurpurea' produces dark bronze-purple leaves and bears blue flowers.
• 'Gaiety' has bronze-purple leaves and and lilac flowers.
• 'Burgundy Glow' has foliage variegated in white, rose, pink, and green and blue flowers.
• 'Bronze Beauty' produces blue flowers and bronze leaves.
• 'Pink Beauty' bears pink flowers and has green leaves.