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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a plant in the family Asteraceae.

Yarrow may also refer to:

• Yarrow, other species within the genus Achillea

Places

• Yarrow, British Columbia, a community in Canada
• Yarrow, Northumberland, England, location of the Kielder Reservoir dam
• Yarrow, Somerset, a hamlet in England
• River Yarrow (Lancashire), England
  • Yarrow Reservoir, Lancashire, England
• Yarrow Water, Scotland
• Yarrow, Scottish Borders, Scotland
• Yarrow, Missouri, an unincorporated community in the United States

People with the name

• Yarrow Maaytey, 17th-century Somali ruler
• Alder Yarrow, American wine journalist and restaurant critic
• Alfred Yarrow (1842–1932), British shipbuilder
• Arnold Yarrow (born 1920), British actor
• Catherine Yarrow (1904–1990), British artist
• Eric Yarrow (1920–2018), British shipbuilder, son of Harold Yarrow
• Ernest Yarrow (1876–1939), British-American missionary
• Harold Yarrow (1884–1962), British shipbuilder, son of Alfred Yarrow
• H. C. Yarrow (1840–1929), American naturalist, ornithologist, and surgeon
• Peter Yarrow (born 1938), American singer and member of Peter, Paul and Mary

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Yarrow (novel), a novel by Charles de Lint
• Yarrowstalks, an underground publication from the 1960s and 1970s

Brands and enterprises

• Yarrow boiler, developed by Yarrow Shipbuilders and widely used in ships
• Yarrow Shipbuilders, in Glasgow, Scotland

Other uses

• Yarrow, a codename for the Fedora Core 1 Linux distribution
• Yarrow algorithm. a family of cryptographic pseudorandom number generators
• Yarrow baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
• Yarrow Stadium, Westown, New Zealand
• Yarrow sticks method, an approach to I Ching divination
• USS Yarrow (SP-1010), a United States Navy patrol boat

See also

• Jarrow, a town in Tyne and Wear, England

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