Silver Mound Artemisia
Artemisia schmidtiana ‘Nana’ · a silver mounding artemisia
- Mature size
- 11 in × 1.5 ft
- 0.3 × 0.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Medium
Silver Mound Artemisia at its mature size
A mature Silver Mound Artemisia grows 0.75 to 1 feet tall and 1 to 2 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Missouri Botanical Garden.
Through the year
What Silver Mound Artemisia looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Below ground · Dec–Mar
Cut back; low silver shoots only.
In leaf · Apr–Nov
Soft rounded cushion of feathery silver foliage.
Growing Silver Mound Artemisia
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Good for
- Groundcover
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Northern Japan and Sakhalin
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Silver Mound Artemisia, that’s about 1.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Silver Mound Artemisia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.