Flower
common yarrow, milenrama, milfoil
AcheneAchene:
A dry, hard, one-chambered, one-seeded indehiscent fruit, as in buckwheat (Fagopyrum) or sunflower (Helianthus). The fruit wall is not united with the seed coat.
Oblong, oblanceolate to obovateObovate:
Inverted egg shaped with apical end the broadest.
, compressed
Gray and black mottled
Smooth with indistinct longitudinal lines
ApicalApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar.
end truncate with a pappusPappus:
Modified calyx in Asteraceae, composed of hairs, bristles, awns, or scales. The pappus-like structure attached to milkweed seeds is termed a coma.
. Style base lobed.
Black mottling is irregular. Ends yellow. AchenesAchene:
A dry, hard, one-chambered, one-seeded indehiscent fruit, as in buckwheat (Fagopyrum) or sunflower (Helianthus). The fruit wall is not united with the seed coat.
oblanceolate to obovateObovate:
Inverted egg shaped with apical end the broadest.
. Slightly winged at margins. Compressed in cross-section. Lustrous, gray center because the embryoEmbryo:
A rudimentary plant contained in a seed, usually consisting of a more or less differentiated axis and attached cotyledon(s).
shows through the papery acheneAchene:
A dry, hard, one-chambered, one-seeded indehiscent fruit, as in buckwheat (Fagopyrum) or sunflower (Helianthus). The fruit wall is not united with the seed coat.
coat. White, paper margins; epidermal cells longitudinally elongate; apicalApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar.
rim horizontal. Style base lobed. PappusPappus:
Modified calyx in Asteraceae, composed of hairs, bristles, awns, or scales. The pappus-like structure attached to milkweed seeds is termed a coma.
none.
Not listed
Included
Asteraceae
Achillea millefolium L.