perennial flower
Moonshine yarrow
A tough pollinator plant for lean soil.
Growing Profile
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a-9a
- Sun
- full
- Soil
- sandy, loam, clay
- Water
- low
- Goals
- Pollinators & wildlife, Curb appeal & color, Low-maintenance natives
Harvest & Use
yellow summer bloom
Useful search phrase: Moonshine yarrow plants.
Plant Relationships
Companion Medium
Small-flowered herbs and annuals near brassicas can support beneficial insects while the brassicas fill out.
Understory Medium
Low alliums and long-blooming flowers can form a simple orchard-edge understory without competing heavily with young trees.
Plant guild Medium
Repeated pollinator-friendly blooms work better as a patch than as isolated one-off plants.