| Scientific Name: | Artemisia schmidtiana |
| Common Name: | silvermound, wormwood, silver mound |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial, Semi-evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Bedding plant, Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Rock garden, Sheared hedge, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Lobed, Dissected, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Linear, Ovate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Achene, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Forms a dense silvery mound a foot (30cm) high; leaves ovate, most 2-3cm long x 1-2cm wide, finely cut to form linear lobes <1mm wide with acute tips; heads of only yellow disk florets, ~5mm wide, many per stem, Sep-Oct. | |