Botanical Name: Artemisia lactiflora (Guizhou Group)
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Common Name: White Mugwort  
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  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Perennial

 

Height Range

3-6'

 

Flower Color

White

 

Flower Season

Summer

 

Leaf Color

Dark Green

 

Bark Color

Red

 

Fruit Color

n/a

 

Fruit Season

n/a

Information by: Stephanie Duer
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  • Description

  • Notes

White mugwort and its cultivars are erect, clump-forming perennials which typically grow up 4 to 5 feet tall and wide. They have upright, branched, terminal sprays of loose panicles of creamy white flowers which bloom atop stiff, dark mahogany stems in late summer. Stems usually do not need staking. Pinnately divided blackish-green leaves have coarsely toothed segments. Most artemisias have non-ornamental flowers and are grown primarily for their attractive silver/gray foliage. By comparison, the white mugworts have attractive flowers and green (blackish-green in the case of this cultivar) leaves. They generally require more water than their silver-foliaged-kin.