Southernwood
Artemisia abrotanum L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 76 cm
Asteraceae
Formerly Abrotanum alpestre, Abrotanum ambiguum, Abrotanum congestum, Abrotanum incanescens, and 21 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Spain to ItalyKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- German
- Eberraute
- French
- Aurone
- Czech
- pelyněk brotan
- Welsh
- hen ŵr
- Finnish
- aaprotti, aaprottimaruna
- Italian
- Abrotano
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Abrodd
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Abrodd
- Slovak
- Palina obrovská
- Swedish
- åbrodd
- Slovenian
- abrašica
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Artemisia abrotanum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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