Achillea alpina

Linnaeus

Sp. Pl. 2: 899. 1753.

Common names: Siberian yarrow achillée de Sibérie
Synonyms: Achillea sibirica Ledebour
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 494. Mentioned on page 493.

Perennials, 50–80 cm (fibrous-rooted and rhizomatous). Stems 1, erect, branched or unbranched distally, sparsely villous to glabrate. Leaves sessile; blades linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5–10 cm × 4–8 mm, (margins serrate to doubly serrate, teeth antrorse) faces sparingly villous or glabrate. Heads 10–25+, in crowded, simple or compound, corymbiform arrays. Phyllaries 20–30 in ± 3 series, (light green, margins light to dark-brown, midribs dark green or yellow-green) lanceolate to oblanceolate, faces (abaxial) sparingly tomentose. Receptacles convex; paleae oblong, 3.5–4.5 mm (apices dark, rounded). Ray-florets 6–8 (–12), pistillate, fertile; corollas white, laminae 1–3 × 2–3 mm. Disc-florets 25–30+; corollas grayish or yellowish white, 2–3 mm. Cypselae 2.5 mm. 2n = 36.


Phenology: Flowering early Jul–early Sep.
Habitat: Meadows, forest edges, roadsides, lakeshores, along streams, moist soils
Elevation: 100–600 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Man., N.W.T., Ont., Que., Sask., Yukon, Alaska, Minn., N.Dak., Asia

Discussion

Achillea alpina has been reported (as A. sibirica) as occurring in New Jersey and Missouri. Specimens examined from those states were from plants cultivated in botanical gardens; there is no evidence that Achillea alpina has escaped in those states.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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glabrate +  and sparsely tomentose +
not tailed +  and obtuse +
unequal +
scarious +
corymbiform +, compound +  and simple +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Debra K. Trock +
Linnaeus +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
linear-lanceolate;oblong-lanceolate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Siberian yarrow +  and achillée de Sibérie +
zygomorphic +, actinomorphic +  and (3-)5-merous +
yellowish white +, grayish +  and white +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
winged +  and monomorphic +
oblong +  and obovate +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.W.T. +, Ont. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Alaska +, Minn. +, N.Dak. +  and Asia +
100–600 m +
tomentose +, glabrate +  and villous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Meadows, forest edges, roadsides, lakeshores, along streams, moist soils +
in subcapitate clusters +  and singly +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
campanulate;hemispheric +
orbiculate +  and suborbiculate +
cauline +  and basal +
deltate +
entire +  and dentate +
unequal +
2-carpellate +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
membranous +
persistent +
Flowering early Jul–early Sep. +
20 +  and 30 +
subequal +  and unequal +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
unbranched +  and branched +
sparsely villous +  and glabrate +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Achillea sibirica +
Achillea alpina +
Achillea +
species +
campanulate +
flattened +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +