Yarrow (The Soldiers' Herb-entry 2)

Are you sure that's Yarrow? It looks kind of like "Queen Anne's Lace" which grows in abundance around here...which is actually wild carrot. (the two are VERY similar...)

Are you sure that's Yarrow? It looks kind of like "Queen Anne's Lace" which grows in abundance around here...which is actually wild carrot. (the two are VERY similar...)

Weird you should say that because I ws agonising over that picture-its a couple of years old and I like to take closeup shots to be certain-but I didnt and the pixellation is a bit coarser on the obselete canon I used.They are hard to tell apart-I decided Yarrow was more likely though.Dont worry about anyone getting poisoned by an error-the carrot has some overlapping properties with Yarrow, mainly for the kidneys/gout. Wouldnt be much use for wounds though.Eagle eyes there. :angel:

 

I think the Carrot is ever so slightly whispier in form

Poison?

Carrot isn't poisonous...there is another though, hemlock I believe, that is and looks similar to both.

 

Yarrow has grayish leaves and is "fluffier" carrot has flatter, greener, "thinner" leaves. Yarrow also smells sort of spicy, like an herb and the others, hemlock and carrot, dont. Carrot sort of stinks

Carrot isn't poisonous...there is another though, hemlock I believe, that is and looks similar to both.

 

Yarrow has grayish leaves and is "fluffier" carrot has flatter, greener, "thinner" leaves. Yarrow also smells sort of spicy, like an herb and the others, hemlock and carrot, dont. Carrot sort of stinks

Again correct, I was thinking of putting Hemlock up next for that very reason-but I didnt want a big rush to execute any dissenting philosophers , though I wasnt aware that any hemlock had escaped its european range.Id suggest that the Hemlock is a "heavier" umbillifer .Im sure everyone is aware of Conium maculatums use as a state poison in Greece,a sort of "lethal bevarage " execution.

Well..it grows here, in America. I'm not entirely sure how to tell except that I know what yarrow is, and I know what yarrow isn't, by the color and the smell. I have no use for carrot and no use for hemlock, so I mainly concern myself with being sure it's yarrow

Well..it grows here, in America. I'm not entirely sure how to tell except that I know what yarrow is, and I know what yarrow isn't, by the color and the smell. I have no use for carrot and no use for hemlock, so I mainly concern myself with being sure it's yarrow

The other very obvious test is simple-uproot it! Yarrow doesnt have a carrot for a root!

LOL yea...though I usually tell by the smell. In most cases, you can tell right off because the two smell very different. Carrots don't always have carrotish roots though, especialy not early in the year.

LOL yea...though I usually tell by the smell. In most cases, you can tell right off because the two smell very different. Carrots don't always have carrotish roots though, especialy not early in the year.

 

Yep Yarrow smells! Hence the common name Old Man's Pepper, and it was used in snuff. It also happens to be called Devil's Plaything.Wild carrot has at the heart of the flower a pink/purple colouration.