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).Flora of China Vol. 20-21 Page 762 高山蓍 gao shan shi ''Achillea alpina'' Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 899. 1753.
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Description

''Achillea alpina'' is a perennial herb up to 80 cm (2 feet) tall. Flowers are white to pale violet, with both

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. The foliage is simply pinnatifid with narrow closely set segments. ;Subspecies and varieties * ''Achillea alpina'' subsp. ''camtschatica'' (Heimerl) Kitam. * ''Achillea alpina'' var. ''discoidea'' (Regel) Kitam. * ''Achillea alpina'' subsp. ''japonica'' (Heimerl) Kitam. * ''Achillea alpina'' subsp. ''pulchra'' (Koidz.) Kitam. * ''Achillea alpina'' subsp. ''subcartilaginea'' (Heimerl) Kitam. This species is found growing in thickets and along shorelines in northwestern North America and it reaches its most southernly distribution in northern Minnesota near the Canadian border where isolated populations are found growing in a

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s, open woods, woodland edges, stream banks, and roadsides. In Minnesota it was listed as a threatened species in 1996.

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