Feverfew is an annual or short-lived perennial. It prefers morning sun and afternoon shade.
When preparing tea, pick, dry, and store leaves and flowers in glass containers. Pick the leaves before flowers form. When preparing tea from the flowers, pick the flowers before they open and hang then upside down to dry.
Tea from the flowers alleviates headaches and muscular tension. Tea from the leaves can also be used for migraines as well as menstrual cramps.
Feverfew should not be used by pregnant or nursing women.
Start Feverfew from seed in late winter. I have also started Feverfew in the early fall and late spring with less success.
Feverfew seeds may also be listed in catalogues as Chrysanthemum parthenium.
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