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Artemisia santonicum
Saline wormwood is a strongly aromatic perennial or subshrub from eastern Europe and western Asia that grows on salty soils such as saltmarshes and coastal shingle. The key to growing it is full sun, sharp drainage, and a lean, saline-tolerant soil.
Artemisia santonicum (saline wormwood) is a species of wormwood native to eastern Europe and western Asia, from Austria east through the Balkans, Ukraine and southern Russia to Kazakhstan, and also through Turkey to Iran.
There are two subspecies, which overlap in parts of southeast Europe:
It occurs on saline soils, being found on the drier parts of saltmarshes, brackish ditches, saltpans, sea cliffs, and coastal shingle.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artemisia santonicum 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.
