| Description | Silver King Artemisia (Artemisia ludoviciana) Forms a bushy, upright patch of fragrant silvery foliage. Used as dried flowers/foliage and in arrangements. A very rapid. aggressive spreader if it likes the site. |
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| Pronunciation | (ar-te-MIZ-ee-uh) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | (3)-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, tolerates dryness, avoid moist |
| Soil & Site | average, tolerates dryness, avoid rich moist |
| Flowers | yellowish-gray, discoid flower heads (rays absent), in dense panicles at the stem ends in summer ,of little ornamental value. |
| Fruit | dry achenes |
| Leaves | white/gray dissected leaves, fragrant |
| Stems | stiff, upright, spreads by rhyzoms |
| Dimensions | 30-36 inches tall, can spread forever |
| Maintenance | cut back after flowering or when the plant starts to get ragged, control the spread by digging out a ring around the clump each year |
| Propagation | easy by division |
| Native Site | native throughout North America from Canada to Mexico. |
| Misc Facts | Genus is named for Artemis, Greek goddess of the moon, wild animals and hunting. Genus is in reference to the Louisiana Territory. AKA: Mug wort, Wormwood, White Sage, western wormwood |
| Author's Notes | When I had a perennial nursery we stocked this plant. Grew it has a field crop for a few years than it became a nuisance because of its rapid spreading. |
| Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage), #06-Perennials for the American Gardens (Ruth Rodgers Clausen and Nicolas H Ekstrom), #79-Perennials For Every Purpose (Larry Hodgson), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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