Achillea alpina, commonly known as alpine yarrow,[2] Chinese yarrow or Siberian yarrow, is an Asian and North American species of plant in the sunflower family. It is native to Siberia, the Russian Far East, China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Nepal, Canada (including Yukon and Northwest Territories), the northern United States (Alaska, northern North Dakota, northern Minnesota).[3][4][5]

Description

Achillea alpina is a perennial herb up to 80 cm (2 feet) tall. Flowers are white to pale violet, with both ray florets and disc florets.[4] The foliage is simply pinnatifid with narrow closely set segments.[6]

Subspecies and varieties[1]
  • Achillea alpina subsp. camtschatica (Heimerl) Kitam.
  • Achillea alpina var. discoidea (Regel) Kitam.
  • Achillea alpina subsp. japonica (Heimerl) Kitam.
  • Achillea alpina subsp. pulchra (Koidz.) Kitam.
  • Achillea alpina subsp. subcartilaginea (Heimerl) Kitam.

This species is found growing in thickets and along shorelines in northwestern North America and it reaches its most southernly distribution in northern Minnesota near the Canadian border where isolated populations are found growing in a peat meadows at the margins of aspen trees,[6] open woods, woodland edges, stream banks, and roadsides. In Minnesota it was listed as a threatened species in 1996.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b The Plant List Achillea alpina L.
  2. ^ English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. p. 335. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2016 – via Korea Forest Service.
  3. ^ Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 494 Siberian yarrow, achillée de Sibérie, Achillea alpina Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 899. 1753.
  4. ^ a b Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 762 高山蓍 gao shan shi Achillea alpina Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 899. 1753.
  5. ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  6. ^ a b Barbara Coffin; Lee Pfannmuller (1988). Minnesota's Endangered Flora and Fauna. U of Minnesota Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-8166-1689-3.
  7. ^ "Achillea alpina (Siberian Yarrow): Minnesota Wildflowers". www.minnesotawildflowers.info. Retrieved 2020-12-02.

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