Tansey (Tanacetum vulgare)

Tanacetum vulgare

Description 2

Flower: Yellow rounded cluster
Leaves: alternately arranged, feathery or fern-like, up to 8 inches long, compound in 4 to 10 pairs of leaflets, leaflets; 1½ inch long, hairless, stalkless, sharply toothed lobes, dotted glands, pungent odor when crushed
Fruit/Seed: dark brown seed heads in late summer
Height: 1-5 feet
Flowering: July - September
Habitat: fields, ditches, roadsides
Other: Highly invasive noxious weed

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) Kingsbrae Garden, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/32598399@N00/1175159336
  2. (c) Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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Color of flowers Yellow