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Artemisia maritima
Also called Wormseed
Sea wormwood is a hardy, aromatic, silvery-grey perennial or subshrub from the coasts of northern Europe that grows best in full sun and well-drained, salty or sandy soil. It thrives in harsh coastal conditions and dislikes rich, wet, shady sites.
Artemisia maritima is a European species of wormwood known as sea wormwood, and also formerly often by its synonym Seriphidium maritimum. It is native to the Atlantic coasts of northern Europe, from western and northern France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Baltic States, and northwestern Russia. In Great Britain, it is found as far north as Wigton on the west coast and Cruden Bay on the east coast, and in Ireland, on the east and west coasts between Dublin and Killough, and Tralee Bay to Galway; it also occurs on the Isle of Man.
There are two subspecies:
It occurs mostly on saline soils, being found on the drier parts of saltmarshes, brackish ditches, sea cliffs, and coastal shingle. As with many other saltmarsh plants, it has started to colonise inland along roadsides that are salted to melt winter ice and snow.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artemisia maritima 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.
