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Oldwoman

Artemisia stelleriana

Also called Dusty Miller, Beach Wormwood, Old Woman, Hoary Mugwort, Hoary Wormwood, Stellar's Wormwood, Hoary Sagebrush

Oldwoman
Photo: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
N. Korea, Russian Far East to Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu), Subarctic America to U.S
Climate
temperate

About

Artemisia stelleriana is an Asian and North American species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to China (Heixiazi Island in Heilongjiang Province), Japan, Korea, Russian Far East (Sakhalin, Kuril Islands, Yakutia, Kamchatka Peninsula), and the Aleutian Islands in the United States. The species is widely cultivated as an ornamental and naturalized in scattered locations in North America, primarily on coastal dunes and other sandy locations, as well as in Scandinavia. Common names include hoary mugwort, Dusty Miller, beach wormwood, and oldwoman.

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 stelleriana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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