golden marguerite or yellow chamomile,

This a perrinial plant that flowers during the summer. Yellow chamomile has daisy look with yellow flowers on long stalks. Yellow chamomile is very popular in gardens and borders.
It has aromatic smelling leaves.

The golden marguerite attracts a lot of butterflies.

flowering
The flowers themself but also there leaves contain a large and concentrate yellow dye. The flowers also attract a large amount of butterflies.
dyer's chamomile
The yellow flowerbuds are used th extract as strong yellow dye , used for painting clothes. There are many other garden plants that produces a yellow coloring dye, but the vivid color of the yellow chamomile is a favorite dyers plant. They are used for this purpose sinds the middle ages. Even the flower leaves produces the color..

golden marguerite in youre garden

Although perinnial, this plant is capable to remain in youre garden. The golden margueite will self-sow easily, sometimes to easy. If the soil is well fertilized, this plant needs staking.
golden marguerite cultivars

�Susanna Mitchell' will do fine in flower borders. Thw white flowers have deep yellow centers. �Grallach Gold' has pale yellow blooms. �Kelwayi' has yellow flowers.

golden marguerite �Kelwayi' or yellow chamomile.
golden marguerite cultivars

�Susanna Mitchell' will do fine in flower borders. Thw white flowers have deep yellow centers. �Grallach Gold' has pale yellow blooms. �Kelwayi' has yellow flowers.

Duizendblad en kamilles, een illustratie van Ann Pratt
1 Reukeloze kamille of Tripleurospermum maritimum, synoniem: Matricaria maritima,
2 Gele kamille of Anthemis tinctoria
3 valse kamille of Anthemis arvensis
4 stinkende kamille of Anthemis cotula
5 Wilde bertram of Achillea ptarmica
6 Achillea ageratum
7 Duizendblad of Achillea millefolium
8 Achillea tomentosa
9 late stekelnoot of Xanthium strumarium

De gele kamille of verfkamille.

Poisonous yellow flowers

Some yellow flowers resemble each other,
which is a problem as Ragwort and St Johns
wort are both dangerous for cattle and humans.
Yellow chamomile, St Johns wort and Ragwort
flower all during the summer and often on the
same places, like the verge of a road.
Take a look at these yellow flowers:

Yellow Chamomile

St Johnwort

Tansy
Common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus)

Ann Pratt

Anne Pratt, 1806 � 1893, was a botanical illustrator. She was the best known English botanical illustrators of the Victorian age. Het most famous work is :
The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails.
on this websire are shown:
gorse
creeping St John's wort or hypericum calycinum
golden marguerite or yellow chamomile

flowers for the butterflie garden

This is a garden that attracts butterflies, as well as certain moths.
This is done by some flowering plants like:
purple cone flowers (Echinacea purpurea),
yellow cone flowers, sunflowers,
marigolds,
poppies,
cosmos,
salvias,
some lilies,
asters,
coreopsis,
daisies,
verbenas,
milkweed ,
buddleia,
zinnias,
pentas,
golden marguerite, yellow chamomile.

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