Achillea nobilisL.

noble yarrow

WFO wfo-0000092435 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Achillea nobilis, photographed by Екатерина Кропочева
fig. a Екатерина Кропочева, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201973838
Achillea nobilis, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. b Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197308843
Achillea nobilis, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. c Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194328100
Achillea nobilis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. d Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171558731
Achillea nobilis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169223068
Achillea nobilis, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. f Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146981212
Achillea nobilis, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. g Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 147212638
Achillea nobilis, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. h Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 141644529

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
5089618
Filed as
Achillea nobilis L.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Achillea nobilis is native: Altay, Chita, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AltayChitaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Achillea nobilis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 89 in flower of 133 examined

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Achillea nobilis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 89 of 133 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,979 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -17.7 °C -10.9 °C -0.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.7 °C 25.0 °C 29.1 °C
Annual rainfall 351 mm 545 mm 881 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 57 mm 97 mm 168 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,979 research-grade observations of Achillea nobilis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 24 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Achillea camphorata Gilib.
  • Achillea corymbifera S.G.Gmel.
  • Achillea cylindrica Poir.
  • Achillea decipiens Vest
  • Achillea densissima O.Schwarz ex Bässler
  • Achillea eridania Bertol.
  • Achillea fruticulosa Willd. ex Ledeb.
  • Achillea gerberi M.Bieb.
  • Achillea gerberi var. angustifolia Dabrowska
  • Achillea grata Fenzl ex Tchich.
  • Achillea hispanica Schrank
  • Achillea kotschyi subsp. lacmonica (Hausskn.) Bässler
  • Achillea ligustica Vis. ex Nyman
  • Achillea nobilis subsp. neilreichii (A.Kern.) Takht.
  • Achillea nobilis subsp. neilreichii (A.Kern.) Formánek
  • Achillea nobilis var. nobilis
  • Achillea nobilis var. ochloreuca Boiss.
  • Achillea ochroleuca Waldst. & Kit.
  • Achillea odorata Pall.
  • Achillea pectinata Lam.
  • Achillea pubescens Willd.
  • Achillea punctata Ten. ex Tchich.
  • Achillea schkuhrii Spreng. ex Nyman
  • Chamaemelum achilleum E.H.L.Krause

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.