Chrysanthemum parthenium syn. Tanacetum parthenium Feverfew Z 5-9

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  Care: sun to light shade in moist soil
  Native: wet places in Europe and western No. America

  Collected before 1798 by Edmund Davall who botanized in Switzerland.

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