Tanacetum

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Tanacetum
Tanacetum vulgare (Tansy)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Genus: Tanacetum L.
Species
About 70 species, including: Tanacetum abrotanifolium Tanacetum achilleifolium Tanacetum argenteum Tanacetum atkinsonii Tanacetum balsamita Tanacetum bipinnatum Tanacetum camphoratum Tanacetum cinerariifolium Tanacetum coccineum Tanacetum compactum Tanacetum corymbosum Tanacetum densum Tanacetum douglasi Tanacetum ferulaceum Tanacetum haradjanii Tanacetum huronense Tanacetum macrophyllum Tanacetum nuttallii Tanacetum parthenifolium Tanacetum parthenium Tanacetum potentilloides Tanacetum poteriifolium Tanacetum praeteritium Tanacetum procreatrix Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum Tanacetum vulgare

Tanacetum is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

Common names include Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare; sometimes called Common Tansy or Garden Tansy) and Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium); several other species are also known as tansies. Other common names include Bachelor's Buttons, Bitter Buttons, Boerenwormkruid, Buttons, Ginger Plant, Gold-buttons, Ponso, Solucanotu, Tanaceto, Tansy, Yomogi-Giku.

The name tansy is also sometimes given, improperly, (e.g. in the western United States) to ragwort, because in those areas ragwort is known as "tansy ragwort".

Tanacetum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bordered Pug, Grey Pug, Lime-speck Pug, Tawny Speckled Pug, Wormwood Pug and the Coleophora case-bearers C. chrysanthemi (feeds exclusively on T. corymbosum), C. tanaceti (feeds exclusively on T. vulgare) and C. trochilella.