It grows to be 8-40 inches tall. It has flowerheads with white to pink rays. There are creamy disks around the central part of the Yarrow. The leaves are fern-like and aromatic. It blooms anytime from June to November.
Flowers bloom in dense flat topped clusters.
The habitat for Yarrow is fields, prairies, and waste places. Yarrow contains a chemical that speeds up the formation of blood clots. Achilles discovered it outside the walls of Troy and brought it to America.