Artemisia frigida -- (Prairie Sagewort)


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 Scientific Name:  Artemisia frigida
 Common Name:  Prairie Sagewort
 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  White
 Plant Origin:  Native
 Soil Type prefered:  Sand, Loam, Clay
 Drought Tolerance:  High
 Flower Conspicuous:  No
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  Low
 Moisture Use:  Low
 Shade Tolerance:  Intermediate
 Active Growth Period:  Spring, Fall
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  Low
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  High
 Bloom Period:  Summer
 Commercial Availability:  Routinely Available
 Cold Stratification Required:  No
 Fall Conspicuous:  No
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  90
 Foliage Color:  Gray-Green
 Fruit/Seed Abundance:  High
 Fruit/Seed Period Begin:  Summer
 Fruit/Seed Conspicuous:  No
 Fruit/Seed Period End:  Fall
 Fruit/Seed Color:  White
 Fruit/Seed Persistence:  No
 Fire Tolerance:  Medium
 Foliage Texture:  Fine
 Growth Form:  Rhizomatous
 Growth Habit:  Subshrub, Shrub
 Growth Rate:  Rapid
 Height at 20 Years, Max. feet:  2
 Height, Mature (feet):  2
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Short
 Max. Planting Density/Acre:  3000
 Min. Planting Density/Acre:  3000
 pH (Maximum):  9
 pH (Minimum):  7
 Precipitation (Minimum):  10
 Protein Potential:  Medium
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Root Depth, Min. (inches):  8
 Salt Tolerance:  Medium
 Shape and Orientation:  Rounded
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed per Pound:  4536000
 Seed Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Seedling Vigor:  High
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -43
 Toxicity:  None
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Propagation:  Container, Seed
 Palpable: (eatable)

 Uses:  Fodder
 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Asterales
 Family:  Asteraceae
 Genus:  Artemisia

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