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Tansy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich*
Affiliation:
Dep. Bot., Univ. Calif., Davis, CA 95616

Extract

Common tansy [Tanacetum vulgare (L.) Bernh. ♯CHYVU], a native of Europe and Asia, is a perennial herbaceous composite growing erect to 1 m. It bears finely divided leaves and, in summer, umbels of small, button-shaped yellow flowers. It has had many traditional uses as medicine, preservative, and repellent from Medieval times to modern—uses which have been validated by contemporary research.

Type
Intriguing World of Weeds
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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