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Artemisia arborescens
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Artemisia arborescens' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Infraspecifics
An evergreen shrub forming a cluster of erect, woody stems to about 4 ft high. Leaves and shoots covered with a close, silky, white down. Leaves cut into linear, bluntly tipped segments, those near the base of the stem distinctly stalked and trebly pinnate, the uppermost sessile and doubly or singly pinnate. Flower-heads bright yellow, globose, short-stalked, 1⁄5 to 1⁄3 in. wide, pendulous at first, later erect, arranged in a leafy, one-sided panicle; receptacles silky-hairy; achenes glandular.
Native of the Mediterranean, where it grows on cliffs and on rocky slopes near the coast; commonest in S. Italy and the Aegean, rarer in the western part of the basin. It is closely related to the common wormwood, A. absinthium, differing mainly in its larger flower-heads and in its non-glandular leaves, which lack the bitter principle characteristic of that species. It is tender but well worth attempting in mild, sunny gardens, best suited under a warm wall in well-drained soil.
'Faith Raven'
A reputedly hardier form, introduced by John Raven from the mountains of Crete.