Artemisia \u2013 Mugwort \u2013 Sagebrush \u2013 Wormwood<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are about 300 species of evergreen, or deciduous shrubs, and perennials, herbs and annuals, in this genus. \u00a0They\u2019re found in semi arid fields, prairies and scrub in the Northern Hemisphere with a few from South Africa and Western South America. \u00a0Their grown for their alternate, variable shaped often pinnatisect, aromatic, palest gray to silver, coated with whitish hairs leaves that repel insects. \u00a0It produces cylindrical white or yellowish flower heads up to 3\/8\u201d wide, occasional solitary but more commonly in terminal panicles or racemes that are of little interest.<\/p>\n

Grow these quite frost hardy plants in well-drained fertile soil in full sun although they can withstand hot dry areas and considerable drought. \u00a0Cut down to base in autumn, cut shrubby species back hard in spring to maintain a compact habit and stimulate new growth. Divide in spring or in autumn.<\/p>\n

Prone to White rust, downy mildew, powdery mildew, rust<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and variety of other fungal leaf and stem diseases are common.<\/p>\n

Artemisia abrotanum \u2013 Lad\u2019s Love \u2013 Old Man \u2013 Southernwood<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This erect deciduous to semi-evergreen frost hardy shrub grows 3-5\u2019 feet tall and in breadth. \u00a0It produces highly aromatic erect brittle pinnatisect to 3 pinnatisect gray-green leaves to 2\u201d long with thread-like lobes with gray hairs on the undersides. \u00a0In late summer it bears small yellowish gray flowers in dense panicles to 4-12\u201d long. \u00a0Due to its brittle leaves take care in positioning.<\/p>\n

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Artemisia \u2013 Mugwort \u2013 Sagebrush \u2013 Wormwood There are about 300 species of evergreen, or deciduous shrubs, and perennials, herbs and annuals, in this genus. \u00a0They\u2019re found in semi arid fields, prairies and scrub in the Northern Hemisphere with a few from South Africa and Western South America. \u00a0Their grown for their alternate, variable shaped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[66,18,21,67,20],"product_tag":[92],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254595"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}