WorldFloraDB - Artemisia umbelliformis

Characteristics

A herb. It has a silvery grey covering. It keeps growing from year to year. The flower heads are yellowish-green.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

Spread

barochory

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.2

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

Mountain rocks, moraines and river gravels. Alpine grassland, gravelly plateaus, rocks and stabilized screes on limestone, rocky crevices, granite, often mylonitized granite, flysch and serpentine; at an elevation from 1,900-2,800 metres.

More

It is a temperate plant. It grows in the mountains of central Europe.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The leaves are used for the preparation of tea. They are also used to flavour liqueurs. It is used in absinthe.

Uses	essential oil food medicinal tea
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	toxic (aerial)
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.

Mode	cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days)	30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°)	15 - 18
Germination luminosity	light
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-35
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-