http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

Frank

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:48:37 -0400, Frank
wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

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.

Frank writes:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

Milkweed.

Grows as a weed here in the NE US.

Sole source of food for the Monarch butterfly.

On 6/11/10 6:11 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:48:37 -0400, Frank
wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

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.

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles'_heel for details.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

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On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:48:37 -0400, Frank
wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

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

I agree that it's yarrow.

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"David E. Ross" wrote:

On 6/11/10 6:11 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:48:37 -0400, Frank
wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

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.

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.
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants....ea+millefolium
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

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On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:48:37 -0400, Frank
wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

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

I agree that it's yarrow.

Definitly yarrow, but it's far too good for Frnk.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

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Frank wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

Frank

Looks like Yarrow could be queen Ann¹s lace.

--
Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
What use one more wake up call?
http://ocg6.marine.usf.edu/~liu/Drif...atest_roms.htm

On 6/12/2010 2:11 AM, Billy wrote:
In t,
"David E. wrote:

On 6/11/10 6:11 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:48:37 -0400, Frank
wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

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.

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.
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants....ea+millefolium

Tough luck Billy. It's growing free on a bank recently denuded of
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.

Billy wrote:
In article ,
"David E. Ross" wrote:

On 6/11/10 6:11 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:48:37 -0400, Frank
wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

A little more on that he

http://waddell.ci.manchester.ct.us/id_yarrow.html

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.
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants....ea+millefolium

I note the use of it in brewing beer. Having helped someone make beer,
hops is a major cost. It looks like yarrow came first though.

Jeff

Frank writes:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg
Anyone know what this is? Mentioned to wife that flowers look a
little like hemlock and now she's worried.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achillea_millefolium

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Frank wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

Frank

Some varieties quite different.

http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/cgi-l...rrow&name.x=10
&name.y=2&name=Go

--
Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
What use one more wake up call?
http://ocg6.marine.usf.edu/~liu/Drif...atest_roms.htm

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Bill who putters wrote:

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Frank wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

Frank

Looks like Yarrow could be queen Ann¹s lace.

Queen Ann's leaves look like carrot leaves, this one's don't.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

Billy wrote:
In article ,
Bill who putters wrote:

In article ,
Frank wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~frank.logullo/weed.jpg

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

Frank
Looks like Yarrow could be queen Ann¹s lace.

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


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

Billy wrote:

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)


....
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.

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants....ea+millefolium

we have plenty of yarrow here
(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