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Artemisia campestris subsp. borealis
Also called Northern Wormwood
A small, aromatic, arctic and alpine perennial subspecies of wormwood with gray-green, finely divided leaves, found at high latitudes and elevations in Eurasia and North America. It is a hardy cold-climate plant best grown outdoors in cool, well-drained, open ground rather than as a houseplant.
Artemisia campestris subsp. borealis is an arctic and alpine subspecies of plant in the sunflower family, commonly known as northern wormwood, boreal sage, boreal wormwood or boreal sagewort. It is native to high latitudes and high elevations in Eurasia and North America. In North America, it can be found in Alaska, Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, and the Rockies, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada as far south as Arizona and New Mexico. In Eurasia, it is widespread across European and Asiatic Russia and also grows in Scandinavia and in the mountains of central Europe (Carpathians, Alps, etc.)
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