Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium)

Patsy Collins
Gardening, Birding, and Outdoor Adventure
2 min readMay 31, 2021

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Golden feverfew in bloom provides food and a resting place for a peacock butterfly. Photography copyright — Patsy Collins

Tanacetum parthenium is a short lived perennial that’s better treated as a biennial as older plants tend to become woody and to collapse just as they start to flower for a second time, ruining the display. Feverfew has bright green, attractively divided leaves which look superficially like ferns. The golden leaved form, Aureum, is the one most usually grown. This form comes true from seed and both forms freely self sow. It can also…

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Patsy Collins
Gardening, Birding, and Outdoor Adventure

Author, gardener, photographer, cake eater and campervanner from the south coast of England.