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Tanacetum bipinnatum bipinnatum (Tansy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tanacetum camphoratum is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names camphor tansy and dune tansy. It is native to the Pacific Coast of North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows in sand dunes and other coastline habitat. This species may be known by the synonym Tanacetum douglasii and is often included in Tanacetum bipinnatum. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb with a thick, low-lying stem up to 25 centimeters long, branching to form a mass of vegetation. It is hairy, glandular, and aromatic, with a camphor scent. The leaves are up to 25 centimeters long and thick but featherlike, divided into many narrow leaflets on each side of the main rachis. Each leaflet in turn has many segments along each side, and the segments are usually divid
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Bee Flower Color [2]  Green
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [3]  The plant is poisonous if large quantities are ingested; There have been cases of death in N. America from drinking strong brews of the tea, presumably as an abortifacient;
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Bees, Flies, Beetles, Bats
Structure [5]  Herb
Usage [3]  A green dye is obtained from the young shoots; The leaves and flowers can also be used and a yellow can also be obtained; The plant is used as a strewing herb in cellars, churches etc in order to repel insects; Both the growing and the dried plant are said to repel flies, ants and fleas, especially if they are mixed with elder leaves (Sambucus spp.); The leaves and the flowering shoots contain 0.15% of an essential oil that contains camphor, borneol and thujone; Both the leaves and the oil and they have been used to kill fleas and lice; Thujone is an effective insecticide, but it is highly toxic to mammals when taken in excess; The plant is a good addition to the compost heap, being valued for its mineral content;
Height [3]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [3]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Rich
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist
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Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces cichoracearum[8]
Puccinia tanaceti[8]
Septoria tanaceti[6]
Shelter for 
Acrocephalus palustris (Marsh Warbler)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0