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Description

Bloom Color: White.
Main Bloom Time: Late summer, Mid summer. Form: Spreading or horizontal, Upright or erect.

Achillea ptarmica is a PERENNIAL growing to 0.6 m by 0.6 m at a fast rate.
It is hardy to zone 5 and is not frost tender. It is in flower from June to October. The species is hermaphrodite and is pollinated by Bees, flies. The plant is self-fertile.
Suitable for: light , medium and heavy soils, prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic soils. It cannot grow in the shade. It prefers moist soil. The plant can tolerate maritime exposure.

Cultivation

Landscape Uses:Border, Container, Rock garden, Seashore, Specimen. Succeeds in most soils but prefers a moist well-drained soil in a sunny position. Plants also succeed in partial shade. Plants succeed in maritime gardens. They live longer when growing in a poor soil. The plant has a spreading root system and can be very invasive. Hardy to at least -25°c. There are some named varieties, selected for their ornamental value. Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. Special Features:Not North American native, Invasive, Naturalizing, Attracts butterflies, Suitable for cut flowers, Suitable for dried flowers. The plant is heat tolerant in zones 8 through 1. .
At this temperature, many plants begin to suffer physiological damage. Heat Zones range from 1 to 12 .
For example Heat Zone. 11-1 indicates that the plant is heat tolerant in zones 11 through 1.) For polyculture design as well as the above-ground architecture information on the habit and root pattern is also useful and given here if available. The plant growth habit is a runner spreading indefinitely by rhizomes or stolons . The root pattern is rhizomatous with underground stems sending roots and shoots along their length .

HabitatsDamp meadows
Habitatsmarshes and by streams.
HabitatsMeadow
HabitatsMeadow
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