Yarrow (disambiguation)

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, the location of the Kielder Reservoir dam
• Yarrow, Somerset, a hamlet in England
• Yarrow, Scottish Borders, near Yarrowford in Scotland
• Yarrow, Missouri, an unincorporated community in the United States

Bodies of water

• Yarrow Water, Scotland
• River Yarrow (Lancashire), England
  • Yarrow Reservoir, Lancashire, England

People

• Alder Yarrow, American wine journalist and restaurant critic
• Alfred Yarrow (1842–1932), British shipbuilder
• Ernest Yarrow (1876–1939), British-American missionary
• H. C. 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