Artemisia ludoviciana -- (Prairie Sage)


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This is a surprisingly useful and handsome plant for the border where, with its downy, silvery stems it can act as a foil to other more brilliantly coloured plants and to give a feeling of coolness on hot sunny days.  Suffering less than many other plants in times of drought, it bears large panicles of tiny, brownish yellow flowers from mid-summer to autumn. 
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 Scientific Name:  Artemisia ludoviciana
 Other Scientific Names:  Artemisia purshiana
 Common Name:  Prairie Sage
 Other Common Names:

 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  Green, White
 Soil Moisture:  Dry, Mesic
 Sun Requirements:  Full
 Plant Origin:  Native
 Drought Tolerance:  High
 Flower Conspicuous:  No
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  Low
 Moisture Use:  Low
 Shade Tolerance:  Intolerant
 Growing Zone:  4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
 Active Growth Period:  Spring, Summer
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  None
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  High
 Bloom Period:  Early Spring
 Commercial Availability:  Routinely Available
 Competitivness:  Sensitive
 Cold Stratification Required:  No
 Best established via:  Seed, Plant
 Fall Conspicuous:  No
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  70
 Foliage Color:  White-Gray
 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:  Forb/herb, Shrub, Subshrub
 Growth Rate:  Moderate
 Height at 20 Years, Max. feet:  3
 Height, Mature (feet):  3
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Short
 Max. Planting Density/Acre:  10000
 Min. Planting Density/Acre:  4800
 pH (Maximum):  9
 pH (Minimum):  6
 Precipitation (Minimum):  10
 Protein Potential:  Low
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Root Depth, Min. (inches):  8
 Salt Tolerance:  High
 Shape and Orientation:  Erect
 Flowering Months:  July, August
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Seedling Vigor:  High
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -33
 Toxicity:  None
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Found in Old fields:  Yes
 Found in Virgin fields:  No
 Propagation:  Container, Cuttings, Seed, Sprigs
 Palpable: (eatable)

 Uses:  Fodder
 Where Found in S.E. MN:

 Pronounciation:  (ar-teh-MEEZ-ee-uh loo-dough-viss-cee-ANN-a)
 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Asterales
 Family:  Asteraceae
 Genus:  Artemisia

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