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common Wormwood
Artemisia absinthium
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Botanical Name:
Artemisia Absinthium
Family:
COMPOSITAE
Genus:
Artemisia
Species:
absinthium
Common Name:
common Wormwood
Lot#:
9501
Quantity:
0.43 lb
Avg Count Packet:
110
Average Seeds Per Pound:
5,000,000
Purity:
97%
Height:
2-4 feet
Collection Locale:
Hungary
Minimum Hardiness Zone:
3-4
1 pkt
$ 4.95
1 oz
$ 21.45
Characteristics
Medicinal
Perennial
Poisonous
Rock Garden Plant
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Growing Info
Scarification
Soak in water, let stand in water for 24 hours
Stratification
warm stratify for 30 days, cold stratify for 30 days
Germination
sow seed 1/16 deep, tamp the soil, keep moist
Description
Wikipedia states: It is a species of wormwood, native to temperate regions of Eurasia and northern Africa. It is a herbaceous perennial plant, with a hard, woody rhizome. The stems are straight, growing to 0.8-1.2 m (rarely 1.5 m) tall, grooved, branched, and silvery-green. The leaves are spirally arranged, greenish-grey above and white below, covered with silky silvery-white trichomes, and bearing minute oil-producing glands; the basal leaves are up to 25 cm long, bipinnate to tripinnate with long petioles, with the cauline leaves (those on the stem) smaller, 5-10 cm long, less divided, and with short petioles; the uppermost leaves can be both simple and sessile (without a petiole). Its flowers are pale yellow, tubular, and clustered in spherical bent-down heads (capitula), which are in turn clustered in leafy and branched panicles. Flowering is from early summer to early autumn; pollination is anemophilous. The fruit is a small achene; seed dispersal is by gravity. It grows naturally on uncultivated, arid ground, on rocky slopes, and at the edge of footpaths and fields.
Comments
Small yellow or purple flowers; white leaves