During a morning walk, my phone and I saw this wee ‘muscle man’ flowering at the road’s edge.
Technical: iPhone 14, Pro Max , ISO 80, 1/100 sec, f/2.8
“With white or light pink flowers, wild yarrow is best suited for medicinal use. The brightly colored cultivars, flashy pink or bright red, are not as valuable. Yarrow’s benefits and uses are as many as the flowers on the corymbs. Medicinally, the plant is a panacea; with more than 40 chemical constituents, yarrow is complex, bioactive, and versatile with many virtues.
Soldier’s Woundwort or Carpenter’s Weed, other names given to yarrow, say a lot about its properties. The styptic and antihemorrhagic properties of yarrow are quite impressive. The leaves and the flowers can stop bleeding and work well on even deep cuts and wounds. The antiseptic properties of the plant also help disinfect injured tissues” (gardenculturemagazine.com)