Artemisia umbelliformis

True Edelraute (Artemisia umbelliformis )

Called The True Edelraute (Artemisia umbelliformis ), also silver precious diamond or silver diamond, is a species of the genus Artemisia in the sunflower family ( Asteraceae or Compositae earlier ).

Features

The aromatic scented, silky -haired plant is five to six inches high, and grows as kurzrasige, perennial and herbaceous plant. The stalked leaves are fingered as basal leaves twice in three parts and the stem leaves.

The yellow tubular flowers are available in 3 to 5 millimeters wide, rounded head in a loose, leafy cluster together; the inner bracts have a dark brown, membranous border.

Blooms from July to September.

Occurrence

As location of rock and moraine, rock crevices, often wind-exposed sites on calcium-poor, but base-rich rocks preferably at altitude 1300-3700 meters.

The Real Edelraute is common in the mountains of Central and West Europe. In Austria, the plant is scattered to rarely in Styria, Upper Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg to be found.

System

Artemisia umbelliformis in 1783 by Jean -Baptiste de Lamarck in Encyclopédie méthodique: firstdescribed Botanique, Volume 1, page 262. Synonyms are Artemisia gabriellae brown Blanq. , Artemisia laxa Fritsch and Artemisia mutellina Vill ..

Trivial names

In the German-speaking area or have been for this species, some only regionally, even the trivial names precious diamonds (Carinthia, Augsburg), Genippkraut ( Switzerland ), Schneppi and wild herb ( Carinthia ) was used.

Special

The Real Edelraute is sought after as jewelry and medicinal herb, thereby become rare and partly exterminated. They used the mountain farmers as home remedies ( folk medicinal plant ) against fever, lung and pleurisy, as a stomach tonic and to flavor liqueurs.

Swell