| Scientific Name: | Artemisia ludoviciana 'Valerie Finnis' |
| Common Name: | Valerie Finnis artemisia |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Mexico, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Rock garden, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Tomentose, Distinctive smell, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Obovate, Incised, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, ellptical-lanceolate to obovate, 3-12cm long x 1-4cm wide, 4cm long while others are up to 12 cm long and toothed towards the apex, covered with dense white short hairs (feels powdery); heads small with yellow disk florets only. | |