Feverfew | Tanacetum parthenium

🌿 Ships well rooted in a 3.5 x 5 inch deep pot. Well established root system and ready to plant! 

Feverfew earns its place in the garden on multiple fronts at once. Clouds of small white daisy flowers with bright yellow button centers cover the plant from midsummer through fall — delicate individually, extraordinary en masse, and exceptional as cut flowers with a 10–14 day vase life. The deeply lobed, parsley-like foliage is strongly aromatic with a sharp citrus-herbal scent that repels deer, aphids, and a long list of garden pests including moths, flies, and mosquitoes — making it one of the better companion plants you can tuck into a vegetable or herb garden. Hoverflies work the flowers heavily, and those hoverflies in turn prey on aphids throughout the surrounding garden. It's a short-lived perennial that behaves more like a self-seeding annual — flowering in its first year, then renewing itself freely from seed year after year once established. Pinch it back at 6–8 inches tall for a bushy, multi-stemmed plant with maximum bloom.
Feverfew has been grown in cottage and apothecary gardens since ancient Greece — its name derives from the Latin febrifugia, meaning "to drive out fever" — and carries a long history of traditional use across European herbalism.

🌿 Latin Name: Tanacetum parthenium
🌞 Light: Full sun to part shade
🌱 Soil: Well-drained, average to lean; tolerates sandy and gravelly soils; no wet feet
💧 Water: Moderate; drought-tolerant once established
📏 Mature Size: 18–36 inches tall
🌸 Bloom Time: Midsummer through fall
🗺️ Hardiness Zone: 4–9
🦋 Wildlife Value: Attracts hoverflies and beneficial insects; seeds feed small birds; deer resistant; natural pest deterrent in companion planting
🌿 Herbal Tradition: Centuries of use in European herbalism dating to ancient Greece