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Weed of the Month: MugwortBy Saara Nafici June 13, 2014Leafing out in silvery-green abundance, mugwort ( Artemisia vulgaris) appears in vacant lots and at roadsides and park edges around this time of year. This hardy member of the aster family thrives in these disturbed areas and easily withstands attempts to yank it out. Thanks to its extensive system of rhizomes, or underground stems, it’s persistent and will bounce right back even after repeated weeding or mowing. It flowers in late summer, sending its seeds into the wind, but really, it’s those thick rhizomes that allow it to spread vegetatively in dense stands until it takes over.It’s easy to mistake mugwort’s frilly, lobed leaves for chrysanthemum leaves, but if you pinch one and rub it between your fingers, its bittersweet smell is an easy giveaway. It smells similar to its notorious cousin, wormwood ( Artemisia absinthium), an ingredient in absinthe, the bitter, green, psychotropic spirit that was popular with 19th-century artists and writers like Vincent van Gogh, Arthur Rimbaud, and Oscar Wilde.
Like many Artemisia species, mugwort is also exceptionally bitter and was once prized as a medicinal herb. (The more bitter the specimen, the more effective it was considered.) Ancient Greeks and others used it as a vermifuge (an agent used to expel worms), an abortant, and a general antiseptic. Murder mystery dinner games for adults. Many cultures also used the plant to guard against evil spirits. I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that the large genus Artemisia, which contains over 200 species, was named for noted female botanist and medical scholar Artemisia II of Caria, who lived in what is today Turkey, in the 4th century BCE! So few women are immortalized in the botanical names of plants.
This genus also happens to boast one of my favorite herbs, tarragon ( Artemisia dracunculus), big sagebrush ( Artemisia tridentata), a dominant species of the western United States, as well as many other fragrant Mediterranean shrubs.A fellow weed enthusiast in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn has spotted a wonderful world of insect life on a patch of mugwort there—a population of aphids has attracted a fleet of ladybugs and their larvae to feast on the easy prey. In fact, over 300 insect species have been known to frequent Artemisia species, either for the pollen or to prey on other insects inhabiting them. Next time you pass a stand of mugwort, examine the leaves up close—maybe you’ll discover a whole new universe hidden in the weeds!The series explores the ecology and history of the common wild plants that most gardeners consider weeds. Garden writer Jessica Walliser wrote that she intended to smother the mugwort with overlapping corrugated cardboard and 4 to 6 inches of shredded hardwood mulch. I noticed how much easier it was to tease out when the ground was friable in an area that I declared total war on last year, so I’m going to cardboard and sheet compost as deeply as i can (hopefully 18 to 24 inches). It may be easier to pull then, or maybe it will decide to just stop growing thereor maybe“muggy” will just say thanks for the cool blanket, do an underground end-run, and greet me at the edgearrrrgh mugwort!.TomishaJuly 7, 2014. I have plenty of experience with mugwort as a Prospect Park volunteer.
To really eradicate weeds like mugwort and others with rhizomes, it’s necessary to smother and starve the roots. I would suggest cutting (not pulling) the plants down to the ground, then then covering the area with a thick layer of corrugated cardboard, covered with mulch. Leave it for at least a year, probably two, before removing what’s left of the cardboard and then cut back and recover any plants that emerge.SaaraJune 19, 2014. Thanks for your question!
Yanking the mugwort straight out is only a temporary fix, so you’ll have to think of this as an ongoing process. We have a few patches in the Children’s Garden that I try to stay on top of every spring. Using a pitchfork, I loosen the soil around the emerging mugwort and then tease out the plant along with as much of the root system as I can. The pitchfork helps keep the rhizomes intact, and I dig out and pull as much of them as possible. That being said, there are always little pieces left in the soil that survive. But this helps keep the mugwort in check.
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Good luck, and recruit some help if you can!.gardenchiJune 18, 2014.
Contents.Distribution Artemisia vulgaris is to, northern and and is in, where some consider it an weed. It is a very common plant growing on nitrogenous soils, like weedy and uncultivated areas, such as waste places and roadsides. Uses Traditionally, it was, and is, used as one of the flavoring and bittering agents of ales, a type of non-hopped, fermented grain beverage.Medicinal Artemisia vulgaris has been used for pain relief, treatment of fever and used as a diuretic agent. However, overdoses can cause pain and spasms. Description Artemisia vulgaris is a tall growing 1–2 m (rarely 2.5 m) tall, with an extensive rhyzome system. Rather than depending on seed dispersal, Artemisia Vulgaris spreads through vegetative expansion and the anthropogenic dispersal of root rhyzome fragments. The are 5–20 cm long, dark green, and sessile, with dense white hairs on the underside.
The erect stems are grooved and often have a red-purplish tinge. The rather small florets (5 mm long) are radially symmetrical with many yellow or dark red petals. The narrow and numerous capitula (flower heads), all fertile, spread out in. It flowers from mid-summer to early autumn.A number of species of (butterflies and moths) such as of the plant.
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