flower or weed

[Frank]

know what this is? Mentioned to wife that flowers look a little like hemlock and now she's worried.

Frank

[kate]

The foliage looks like yarrow. The flowers looks too big, more fleabane size, but that could be the angle. My bet is on yarrow.

If so, Achillea millefolium is a wonderful plant. It was said that Achilles was dipped in yarrow but held by his heel, so that was the only part of his body that wasn't protected.

Yarrow is amazing at stopping bleeding. I introduced it to my diabetic neighbor. Chew on a leaf and apply it to a bleeding wound and voila, the bleeding stops. Great to have in a garden, although some folks might not like that it spreads.

[despen]

Milkweed.

Grows as a weed here in the NE US.

Sole source of food for the Monarch butterfly.

[David E. Ross]

The legend of Achilles is that his mother Thetis dipped him as an infant into the River Styx (which must be crossed by the dead to reach Hades). See

[FarmI]

I agree that it's yarrow.

[Billy]

I just wish I could make mine spread. I killed one by planting it in the ground. If you were to grow only one medical plant, this is the one that I would choose.

[Billy]

Definitly yarrow, but it's far too good for Frnk.

[Bill who putters]

Looks like Yarrow could be queen Ann¹s lace.

[Frank]

winter damaged white pines.

Thanks to you and others for identifying. My wife likes it and so far the deer haven't eaten it, so it is a welcome addition to our home.

[Jeff Thies]

A little more on that here:

hops is a major cost. It looks like yarrow came first though.

Jeff

[brooklyn1]

[Bill who putters]

Some varieties quite different.

[Billy]

Queen Ann's leaves look like carrot leaves, this one's don't.

[gloria.p]

Queen Anne flowers are larger, more delicate clusters and have a tiny maroon structure in the center of the cluster. gloria p

[songbird]

yarrow. i know it well... when you cut it it has a pretty distinctive smell.

we sneeze and get rather runny noses when we deadhead it. i like to leave it alone because it overgrows a lot of other plants (dandelions, crab grasses, etc)

...

(4 kinds, three of which i like, white, pink and red, the other is yellow and smells too much like dog poo to me).

it makes a wonderful lawn if you keep it mowed -- it spreads and makes a soft mat to walk on. it also seems to keep greener through the dryer and hotter parts of summer when the regular grass goes dormant.

songbird

[Billy]

It seems disrespectful to another species that offers so much.