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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Achillea alpina
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 899. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Siberian yarrow;achillée de Sibérie
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Achillea sibirica
|authority=Ledebour
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae;Achillea;Achillea alpina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Achillea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Achillea alpina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 493
|treatment_page=page 494
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 50–80 cm (fibrous-rooted and rhizomatous). <b>Stems</b> 1, erect, branched or unbranched distally, sparsely villous to glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blades linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5–10 cm × 4–8 mm, (margins serrate to doubly serrate, teeth antrorse) faces sparingly villous or glabrate. <b>Heads</b> 10–25+, in crowded, simple or compound, corymbiform arrays. <b>Phyllaries</b> 20–30 in ± 3 series, (light green, margins light to dark brown, midribs dark green or yellow-green) lanceolate to oblanceolate, faces (abaxial) sparingly tomentose. <b>Receptacles</b> convex; paleae oblong, 3.5–4.5 mm (apices dark, rounded). <b>Ray</b> florets 6–8(–12), pistillate, fertile; corollas white, laminae 1–3 × 2–3 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 25–30+; corollas grayish or yellowish white, 2–3 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 2.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early Jul–early Sep.
|habitat=Meadows, forest edges, roadsides, lakeshores, along streams, moist soils
|elevation=100–600 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Minn.;N.Dak.;Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Achillea alpina</i> has been reported (as A. sibirica) as occurring in New Jersey and Missouri. Specimens examined from those states were from plants cultivated in botanical gardens; there is no evidence that <i>Achillea alpina</i> has escaped in those states.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Achillea alpina
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Achillea sibirica
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering early Jul–early Sep.
|habitat=Meadows, forest edges, roadsides, lakeshores, along streams, moist soils
|elevation=100–600 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Minn.;N.Dak.;Asia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_825.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae
|genus=Achillea
|species=Achillea alpina
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