Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium)

Family: Asteraceae or Compositae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Bloom Color: White, Yellow. Main Bloom Time: Late summer, Mid summer. Form: Rounded.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Spring

Flavor & Culinary Uses

flavouring in cooking certain pastries. — The dried flowers are used as a flavouring in cooking certain pastries.; The plant is used in cooking to impart a deliciously aromatic bitter taste to certain foods.; A tea is made from the dried flowers.

Habitat & North American Range

Mountain scrub, rocky slopes, walls, waste places and a weed of gardens, avoiding acid soils. (Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8)