Yarrow (disambiguation)
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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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Yarrow (novel), a novel by Charles de Lint
- Yarrowstalks, an underground publication from the 1960s and 1970s
Brands and enterprises
[edit]- Yarrow boiler, developed by Yarrow Shipbuilders and widely used in ships
- Yarrow Shipbuilders, in Glasgow, Scotland
Other uses
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Jarrow, a town in Tyne and Wear, England