Name: Achillea 'Little Moonshine' - Compact Golden Yarrow Perennial
Brand: Achillea
SKU: pda112
Price: 5.9 EUR
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Achillea Little Moonshine

€5,90

Achillea Little Moonshine

€5,90

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Organic

Sustainable

Locally grown

The green, finely cut, aromatic foliage forms a compact clump with a light and feathery silhouette, fitting well in more rustic prairie-type settings as well as among more robust and voluminous perennials in a sunny flower bed.

The flowers of this variety are prized for their long bloom period and bright yellow.

Because it is a dwarf cultivar, it is perfect for smaller gardens or container planting due to its manageable size and long-lasting blooms.

Fun Fact:

Achillea millefolium 'Little Moonshine' is a compact cultivar of the hybrid yarrow Achillea 'Moonshine', which was developed in the United States.

The 'Moonshine' hybrid itself is a cross between Achillea taygetea, native to Greece, and Achillea millefolium, commonly known as common yarrow.

The 'Little Moonshine' variety was introduced to offer a more compact form of this hybrid, making it suitable for smaller garden spaces and containers.

Flower Color: Yellow

Preferred Soil Type: Well-drained, Loamy, Sandy

Sunlight: Full sun

Hardiness Zone: Zone 6 : -20°C

Growth Habit: Compact

🪴9x9 cm

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€5,90

Floral Morphology

Achillea millefolium 'Little Moonshine' belongs to the Asteraceae family and produces dense, flat-topped corymbs held on stiff stems of 25–35cm above finely dissected, feathery grey-green foliage. Each apparent flower is in fact a capitulum composed of 4–6 outer ray florets — ligulate, sulphur-yellow fading to cream with age, and pistillate only — surrounding a tightly packed centre of tubular, bisexual disc florets of a deeper yellow. The involucre bracts are papery-margined, ovate and imbricate.

Reproductive Biology

Reproductively, the five stamens are syngenesious (anthers fused into a tube), and as the bifid style elongates it pushes pollen outward in a characteristic secundine mechanism. The inferior ovary produces a small, compressed cypsela of around 1.5–2mm, silver-grey and without a pappus, dispersed by wind and animal contact. The cultivar also spreads vegetatively via rhizomes. The open, accessible disc florets make it exceptionally attractive to short-tongued pollinators — hoverflies, small bees and beetles — giving it strong ecological value alongside its graphic, long-season visual interest.