Achillea nobilis

Noble Yarrow ( Achillea nobilis)

The Noble Yarrow ( Achillea nobilis) is a species of the genus of yarrow (Achillea ) in the sunflower family ( Asteraceae). It is distributed in Eurasia.

Description

The Noble yarrow grows as a perennial herbaceous plant, reaching heights of growth of 20 to 60 centimeters. It makes no foothills, smells fragrant and the above-ground plant parts are woolly hairy to tomentose. The stem leaves are broadly elliptic to ovate in outline and no more than two to three times as long as wide. The leaf stem is denticulate and has smaller intermediate lobe. The blade portions of the upper stalk leaves are two to three times (one to four times ) pinnatisect, with from 2 to 25 teeth per page.

The doldenrispige total inflorescence contains numerous basket- shaped part inflorescences. The bracts are hairy and dull. The flower heads contain only four to six florets. The tongue of the corolla is significantly shorter than the sheath.

Occurrence

The Noble Yarrow is widespread in central and southern Europe. It also occurs from southeast Europe to Asia on (Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Altai ) on. In northern Europe, it is only synanthropic.

The Noble Yarrow needs calcareous, friable loam soil, but also goes on loess. They settled arid and semi- arid grassland rare rock bands or embankments. From the Upper Rhine to the Moselle mouth, on the middle Main, and in the southeastern Frankenalb and in the Southern Swiss Jura, in Lower Austria, Burgenland and on Alpensüdfuß it is rare; in the Hessen, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony loess or limestone areas, it occurs sporadically.

Phytosociological they are often found in the company of the Poo- Anthemetum tinctoriae together with Poa compressa, Anthemis tinctoria, or Melica ciliata. In Schlüchttal in the Silene rupestis - Festuga pallens Society.

Ingredients

The type contains essential oil. The press juice can cause on the skin in the light of inflammation.

System

There are at least two subspecies:

• Achillea nobilis L. subsp. nobilis: you occurs, for example in Germany.
• Achillea nobilis subsp. neilreichii ( A.Kern ) Velen: She has the upper side yellow ray florets and is rarely adventiv.