Artemisia stelleriana is an herbaceous perennial dicot in the sunflower family. It is native to Asia (China, Japan and Korea), far eastern Russia, western Canada, and Alaska's Aleutian Islands in the United States. This plant is slightly aromatic and noted for its deeply toothed, fuzzy, silver-gray foliage that remains in leaf year round. It provides interesting color and textural contrast in a garden or can soften the transition between other bold garden colors. In North America this species is well established along the Atlantic coast, is widely cultivated as an ornamental, and has naturalized on dunes and other sandy coastal areas. It thrives in hot, dry conditions, tolerates salt spray, and does well in sunny well-drained soil. Beach wormwood is a common plant in coastal southern gardens. Its creeping growth habit via rhizomes makes it suitable as an edging plant or ground cover in dry areas. It does not tolerate wet soils or shade. More information on Artemisia .
Curated pairwise relationships between this plant and others in the library — who feeds
whom, who competes, who confuses the pests. Green reads as a good pairing, red as one to avoid.
No curated interactions recorded for this species yet.
Also noted by NC State
Related species the NC State Plant Toolbox flags for this plant — look-alikes to tell
apart, and plants that play a similar role in a planting. Ones we carry in the library are linked.