Asteraceae
Achillea
Achillea millefolium

Achillea millefolium subsp. millefolium

This subspecies is accepted
The native range of this subspecies is Subarctic & Temp. Northern Hemisphere to Guatemala. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, Florida, France, Føroyar, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Nebraska, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Texas, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon

Introduced into:

Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Azores, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Falkland Is., Free State, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Inner Mongolia, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madeira, Malaya, Namibia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Queensland, South Australia, South Georgia, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tasmania, Uruguay, Victoria, Vietnam, Western Australia, Xinjiang, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Aver'ianov, L.V. & al. (2006). Illyustrirovannyi opredelitel' rastenii Leningradskoi oblasti: 1-799. Nauka, Moskva.
  • GCC (2011). Global Compositae Checklist http://compositae.landcareresearch.co.nz/.
  • Ghazanfar, S.A., Edmondson, J.R. & Hind, D.J.N. (eds.) (2019). Flora of Iraq 6: 1-458. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
  • Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1992). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 6: 1-428. Nauka, Leningrad.
  • Retief, E. & Meyer, N.L. (2017). Plants of the Free State inventory and identification guide. Strelitzia 38: 1-1236. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • von Raab-Straube, E. (ed.) (2011). Compositae. Euro+Med Plantbase. The Euro+Med PlantBase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/query.asp.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Davis [33704] Georgia K002332609 Yes
Furse, P. [3155] Iran K002332610 Yes
Ledebour [s.n.] Achillea alpicola K002333188 Yes
Schneider, C.K. [420] Bulgaria Achillea setacea K002336634 No
Gilliat-Smith, B. [1175] Bulgaria Achillea setacea K002336633 No
Gilliat-Smith, B. [798] Bulgaria Achillea setacea K002336632 No
Efremov, N. [s.n.] Bulgaria Achillea setacea K002336628 No
s.coll. [s.n.] Achillea setacea K002336620 No
Gilliat-Smith, B. [808] Bulgaria Achillea setacea K002336629 No
Gilliat-Smith, B. [1005] Bulgaria Achillea setacea K002336631 No
Gilliat-Smith, B. [778] Bulgaria Achillea setacea K002336630 No
s.coll. [s.n.] Croatia Achillea setacea K002336635 No
Streinz [s.n.] Austria Achillea setacea K002336621 No
Alston, A.H.G.; Sandwith, N.Y. [1919] Albania Achillea setacea K002336618 No
s.coll. [s.n.] Croatia Achillea setacea K002336636 No
Pichler, T. [s.n.] Bulgaria Achillea setacea K002336627 No
Marie-Victorin; Germain, R. [s.n.] Canada Achillea millefolium var. nigrescens K002308508 Yes
Marie-Victorin; Germain, R. [28555] Canada Achillea millefolium var. nigrescens K002308509 Yes
Bujorean, G. [s.n.] Romania Achillea millefolium subsp. balearica K002351097 Yes
Gergely, I. [s.n.] Romania Achillea millefolium subsp. balearica K002351098 Yes
Ker, M.D. [92] United Kingdom Achillea millefolium var. purpurea K002350917 Yes
[F. Wallius] [158] United Kingdom Achillea millefolium var. purpurea K002350916 Yes
Heller, A.A. [5608] United States Achillea arenicola K000928460 Unknown Type Material Yes
Blinkworth, R. [Cat. no. 3230] India Achillea cuspidata K001118864 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images