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Artemisia alba
White mugwort is a silvery-grey, aromatic subshrub from southern and central Europe, grown mainly for its foliage and camphor-scented leaves. The key to growing it is sharp drainage and steady, moderate watering; it resents both drying out and waterlogging.
Artemisia alba, called white mugwort, white wormwood, white artemisia, or camphor southernwood, is a species of Artemisia native to Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and the Balkans. Its currently unrecognized subtaxon Artemisia alba 'Canescens' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Artemisia alba 'Canescens', one of the two named cultivars widely sold in UK is not an easy plant to grow in pots. It is a lovely plant but susceptible to erratic summer watering. It dislikes drying out of the root system or waterlogging. The other widely used UK cultivar the green camphor scented southernwood A. alba 'Camphorata' is much more tolerant of difficult conditions. (Ref Dr John Twibell, National Collection of Artemisia, Sidmouth UK.)
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
