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 dracunculus \u2013 Tarragon<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This clump forming sub shrubby perennial from Central and Eastern Europe, and Southern Russia grows to 3-4\u2019 feet tall and 12\u201d wide. \u00a0It bears aromatic lance shaped light to mid green leaves to 4\u201d long. \u00a0In late summer insignificant nodding yellowish white flower heads are borne in loose panicles 2-14\u201d long. \u00a0Leaves are used for seasoning- delicate, peppery aniseed flavor. \u00a0Divide in early spring.<\/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":26528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[66,80,21,67,20],"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-160254605"},"_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\/5958"}],"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=5958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}