Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, Mongach meisce
Photographs: Crookhaven, Co. Cork

Mugwort
Artemisia vulgaris
Mongach meisce
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering time: July-October. Perennial. Native,

Narrow panicles of tiny red-brown flower-heads with leaf-like lower bracts. The alternate leaves are twice-pinnate, dark green above and silvery white and downy underneath. An aromatic, erect, branched, downy plant with reddish pithy stems. Height 60-120cm.

Grows on waste ground, roadsides, scrub, embankments and river-sides. Native, but also found as a garden escape.

Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, Mongach meisce

Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, Mongach meisce
Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, Mongach meisce

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