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Artemisia campestris
Also called Field Wormwood, Sand Wormwood, Breckland Mugwort, Field Mugwort, Sagewort Wormwood, Common Sagewort, Pacific Wormwood
Field sagewort (Artemisia campestris) is a branching, aromatic perennial or subshrub in the daisy family, growing up to about 1.5 m tall. It thrives in open, dry, sandy or rocky ground and needs full sun and very good drainage.
Artemisia campestris is a common and widespread species of plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. It is native to a wide region of Eurasia and North America. Common names include field wormwood, beach wormwood, northern wormwood, Breckland wormwood, boreal wormwood, Canadian wormwood, field sagewort and field mugwort.
Artemisia campestris is a branching, aromatic plant up to 150 cm (5 ft) tall. It grows in open sites on dry sandy soils, in steppes, rocky slopes, and waste areas.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artemisia campestris by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
