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Artemisia glacialis

Artemisia glacialis
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Artemisia glacialis, the glacier wormwood, is a small alpine subshrub of the daisy family, growing to about 18 cm, native to the Alps of France, Italy and Switzerland. It is a plant of cold, exposed mountain ground and is rarely grown in gardens.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry between waterings; it dislikes wet roots.
Soil
Very free-draining, gritty, alkaline or neutral mineral soil.
Temperature
Hardy to well below freezing; keep cool in summer, protect from prolonged heat and humid warmth.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. & W. Alps
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Artemisia glacialis, the glacier wormwood, is a species of flowering plant in the aster family.

Artemisia glacialis grows to approximately 18 cm (7.1 in) high, and is indigenous to the Alpine regions of France, Italy, and Switzerland.

Uses

Artemisia glacialis is historically employed in liqueurs, as well as a digestive and stomachic preparations. The poultice is used for the treatment of wounds.

Other Artemisia plants

Southernwood · Absinthium · African Wormwood · White Mugwort · Aleutian wormwood · Artemisia alpina · Sweet sagewort · Hedge Artemisia · Little sagebrush · Artemisia arenaria · Chinese Mugwort · Austrian Mugwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artemisia glacialis 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.

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