Artemisia schmidtiana 'Nana' - Silvermound Artemisia, Angels-Hair, or Wormwood (Asteraceae) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artemisia schmidtiana 'Nana' is a silver-foliaged, Twigs fine-textured, mounding, perennial that serves as an -not applicable excellent edging plant. Trunk -not applicable FEATURES Form USAGE -small herbaceous perennial Function -maturing at about 1' tall x 1.5' wide -edging, specimen, border, mass planting, rock -spreading mound growth habit garden, or focal point mounding perennial Texture -very fine texture -thick density Assets -silver-colored, fine-textured foliage in a spreading mound form -works well as a neutral spacer or framing plant, in Culture combination with perennials whose flowers are -full sun to partial sun mostly in the cool color range (pink, lavender, blue, -placement in moist, well-drained, relatively infertile purple, and even scarlet to maroon) soils in full sun prevents excessive vertical vegetative -fairly drought tolerant growth, which will usually keep the center of the Liabilities foliage mound from unattractively opening up and -foliage often splits apart in the center of the clump separating by mid-summer by mid-summer for mature-size clumps -if placed in fertile soils, the foliage may grow from -foliage may rot or rust under high humidity 1-1.5' tall; in this case, clump splitting can be conditions prevented or delayed by shearing the foliage back Habitat halfway in July, before flowering begins -Zones 3 to 7 tolerant of poor soils, dry soils, heat, and drought -Native to Japan propagated by crown division or by rooted stem cuttings SELECTIONS -Daisy Family, with stem rot or foliage rust under Alternates humid conditions being the 2 primary disease -herbaceous plants with silvery-gray foliage problems, and with no significant pest problems (Antennaria dioica, Artemisia species, Cerastium -moderately available in containers tomentosum, Helichrysum petiolare, Perovskia Foliage atriplicifolia, Stachys byzantina, etc.) -alternate, silvery- Variants green tomentose -Artemisia schmidtiana 'Nana' (also known as 'Silver leaves arise from short Mound') - the standard form available, as described stems, and are twice throughout this text; this is the only common palmately divided into Artemisia that has a prostrate growth habit, and is one linear segments of of the few that is not invasive by underground extremely fine foliage rhizomes texture -several species, cultivars, and hybrids of Artemisia -autumn color remains silvery, until quickly dying exist, usually noteworthy as silver- or gray-foliaged back to the crown with the initial frosts perennials of various upright growth habits and Flowers medium to fine textures, often used as foliage -inflorescences are silver in bud and yellow-white in perennials that mix well with cooler-colored flower, are small, sparse to non-existent, may be perennials (those with pink, lavender, blue, or purple unnoticed above the silver foliage, are ornamentally flowers, or even scarlet or maroon among the semi- insignificant, and bloom in Aug. (if at all) warm colors) Fruits -ornamentally insignificant.