Artemisia douglasiana - Mugwort

California mugwort (Artemisia douglasiana) is an aromatic perennial herb native to stream banks, ditches, and other disturbed, moist ground in California, its leaves rubbed on skin as a traditional, unverified folk remedy for poison oak rash.¹ It grows 0.7-1 m tall and 0.5-1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Moist soil¹

Outputs

• Medicinal use¹

Type

• Herb
• Perennial
• Deciduous

Functions

• Soil stabilization¹
• Flammable²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.7-1
Diameter (m)	0.5-1

Footnotes

1. Artemisia douglasiana, Mugwort | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 15 seconds ↩