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 Achillea genus
Places
- Yarrow, British Columbia, a community in Canada
- Yarrow, Northumberland, in the List of places in Northumberland, England
- Yarrow, Somerset, a hamlet in England
- Yarrow, Scottish Borders, near Yarrowford in Scotland
- Yarrow, Missouri, an unincorporated community in America
Bodies of water
- Yarrow Water, Scotland
- River Yarrow (Lancashire), England
- Yarrow Reservoir, Lancashire, England
People
- Alder Yarrow, American wine journalist and restaurant critic
- Sir Alfred Yarrow (1842–1932), British shipbuilder
- Ernest Alfred Yarrow (1876–1939), British-American missionary
- Henry Crécy Yarrow (1840–1929), American naturalist, ornithologist, and surgeon
- Peter Yarrow (born 1938), American singer and member of the group Peter, Paul and Mary
- Yarrow Maaytey, 17th century Somali ruler
Other uses
- Yarrow Shipbuilders, in Glasgow, Scotland
- Yarrow boiler, developed by the above and widely used in ships
- USS Yarrow (SP-1010), a United States Navy patrol boat
- Yarrow Stadium, Westown, New Zealand
- Yarrow baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Yarrow algorithm, a random number generator in cryptography
- Yarrow, a codename for the Fedora Core 1 Linux distribution
- The Yarrow, an indie rock band from Provo, Utah
- Yarrow (novel), by Charles de Lint
See also
- Jarrow, a town in Tyne and Wear, England
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