Seasonal Wild Flowers

Mugwort

Artemisia vulgaris

Asteraceae

July to September

It is found throughout the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Mugwort

It is an archaeophyte which grows in waste places,

brownfield sites and by roads and paths.

Mugwort is a slightly aromatic perrenial herb, growing

up to 1.5m.

Flowerheads are oval and up to 4mm.

Bracts are lanceolate and woolly.

Ray florets are female and disk florets are hermaphrodite.

Both are yellow or brownish purple.

Leaves dark green and pinnately divided.

The lower surfaces are grey and woolly.

Stems are reddish, grooved and angled.

Mugwort colony just before flowers open

Flower spike with open flowerheads

Close-up of tip of flower spike

Close up of newly open flowerheads

Side view of open flowerheads

Leaves - upper surface green,

lower surface silver and flower stem purple