''Achillea alpina'', commonly known as alpine yarrow, Chinese yarrow or Siberian yarrow, is an Asian and

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n species of plant in the sunflower family. It is native to Siberia, the Russian Far East,

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), the northern United States ( Alaska, northern North Dakota, northern Minnesota).Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 762 高山蓍 gao shan shi ''Achillea alpina'' Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 899. 1753.
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Description

''Achillea alpina'' is a perennial herb up to 80 cm (2 feet) tall. Flowers are white to pale violet, with both ray florets and disc florets. The foliage is simply pinnatifid with narrow closely set segments. ;Subspecies and varieties * ''Achillea alpina'' subsp. ''camtschatica'' (Heimerl) Kitam. * ''Achillea alpina'' var. ''discoidea'' (Regel) Kitam. * ''Achillea alpina'' subsp. ''japonica'' (Heimerl) Kitam. * ''Achillea alpina'' subsp. ''pulchra'' (Koidz.) Kitam. * ''Achillea alpina'' subsp. ''subcartilaginea'' (Heimerl) Kitam. This species is found growing in thickets and along shorelines in northwestern North America and it reaches its most southernly distribution in northern Minnesota near the Canadian border where isolated populations are found growing in a peat meadows at the margins of aspen trees, open woods, woodland edges, stream banks, and roadsides. In Minnesota it was listed as a threatened species in 1996.

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Alaskan WildflowersCzech Botany, Achillea alpina L. – Siberian Yarrow, Chinese Yarrow
in English with photos alpina Flora of Asia Flora of Subarctic America Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Flora of Western Canada Flora of Eastern Canada Flora of North Dakota Flora of Minnesota Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Asteroideae-stub