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Angel's Hair

Artemisia schmidtiana

Also called Schmidt Wormwood

Angel's Hair
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0

Angel's Hair (Artemisia schmidtiana, also called silver mound) is a small, mat-forming evergreen perennial grown mainly for its soft, hairy silver foliage rather than its flowers. It thrives in full sun with good drainage and needs little water once established.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; it tolerates drought well.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, well-drained soil; tolerates clay if drainage is good.
Temperature
Hardy in cold winters (USDA zones 1 to 9); protect container plants from prolonged waterlogging in cold, wet weather.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. Russian Far East, Sakhalin to Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu)
Climate
temperate

About

Artemisia schmidtiana, common name silver mound, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Japan but widely cultivated as an ornamental.

Other Artemisia plants

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 schmidtiana 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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