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 ludoviciana <\/b><\/strong>\u2018Silver Queen\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Artemisia palmeri <\/b><\/strong>\u2018Silver Queen\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Artemisia purshiana <\/b><\/strong>\u2018Silver Queen\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 Western Mugwort \u2013 White Sage<\/b><\/strong> \u2013 This very frost hardy, rhizomatous, clump forming perennial grows 30″ inches tall and spreads 2\u2019 feet or more wide. \u00a0It produces coarsely toothed, lance shaped, densely downy, silvery white leaves 4-5\u201d long, which become greener with age.\u00a0\u00a0Not so freely from mid summer to autumn it bears densely white woolly panicles to 8\u201d long of brownish yellow bell shaped flower heads. \u00a0Often becomes invasive.<\/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":26531,"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-160254622"},"_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\/5973"}],"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=5973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}