Some similarities to : Sneezewort but although the petals are crimped as they are in Sneezewort, there are fewer of them, and the leaves are totally different.

Distinguishing feature : the leaves are extremely distinctive.

Clain to Fame: This plant has the fewest outer petals for any member of the Daisy and Dandelion Family, totalling a meagre five, apart from those plants which have no outer florets such as Groundsells. Most other members of this family have many more than a dozen outer petals.

Used to flavour beer in Sweden.

Many plants contain the terpenoid camphor, including Camphor Laurel and many coniferous trees, but Yarrow contains up to 18% in the flowers. Compare camphor with camphene, a constituent of Tansy. Camphor readily sublimes and is used in solid air fresheners and medicinally in vapour rubs, since it is readily absorbed through the skin acting as a local anaesthetic, but is poisonous to eat. Despite its' toxicity it has in times past been used to flavour ice-cream and toffees!

Yarrow also contains the bicyclic mono-terpene Pinene (Beta).

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