Scientific Name: Artemisia dracunculus
Common Name: French tarragon
Family Name: Asteraceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Herb, Medicinal plant
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Serrulate
Flowers: Head (capitulum), White, Yellow, Jul-Aug
Fruit: Achene, Green, Brown, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves narrow, narrowly elliptical to linear (rarely 3-lobed), most 5-7(-10)cm long x 6-12mm wide; head of yellow disk florets in narrow, elongated panicles.