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Artemisia frigida
Also called Fringed Sage, Estafiata, Fringed Sagewort, Pasture Sage, Prairie Sagebrush, Wormwood Sage
Prairie sagewort is a low, mat-forming perennial shrub-like subshrub with silvery, aromatic foliage, native to cold, dry grasslands across Europe, Asia and North America. It is grown for its foliage and thrives with full sun, sharp drainage and little water.
Artemisia frigida is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe, Asia, and much of North America. In parts of the north-central and northeastern United States it is an introduced species.
Artemisia frigida is cultivated for its foliage effects, and has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The wildflower cultivation author Claude A. Barr expressed the opinion that it and Artemisia longifolia were the only two species of Artemisia that could be safely taken into a garden. The other species such as Artemisia tridentata, being too aggressive in spreading.
Artemisia frigida is also used in landscaping and for erosion control and revegetation of rangeland. It is drought-resistant.
A number of wild animals consume the plant, including white-tailed jackrabbits and sage grouse.
Southernwood · Absinthium · African Wormwood · White Mugwort · Sweet sagewort · Hedge Artemisia · Chinese Mugwort · Biennial wormwood · Coastal sagebrush · Capillary Artemisia · Carruth's sagewort · Douglas' sagewort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artemisia frigida 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.
