Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia

Common Tansy 
(Tanacetum vulgare)


  • Regional Noxious Weed

  • aromatic perennial growing to 1.8 metres tall; deeply divided dark green leaves; yellow "button" flowers in cluster at top of plant; no ray flowers

  • often confused with tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) that has ray flowers

Button-like yellow flowers
Seedling leaves with serrated leaflet margins

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