Sunday, 8:00 AM. 56 degrees, wind WNW, light to moderate. The channel is wrinkled, the sky blue with some high, thin clouds and the barometer predicts mostly sunny skies. It is a most pleasant morning, but we are in a drought, and I watered heavily again yesterday.
The yarrow, Achillea millefolioum, is a common roadside and field plant, and the Achillea species and varieties are one way or another circumpolar in the northern hemisphere. The golden flowered plant is a cultivated variety, the white is wild. It’s genus name is after Achilles, who tradition has it used it as a compress to staunch the bleeding of the wounds of battle, thus also the names military herb, and woundwort. It has a lot of other herbal uses, internal as well as external. Don’t plant them in the garden as they become very weedy, otherwise, wild or cultivated these are good and useful plants.
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