Re: Rooting artemesia

Cindy in Texas asked about rooting Artemesia california and/or vulgaris, etc.
If this is the one I "grew up with", in Chumash Indian territory, in Santa 
Barbara County (California), we called it mugwort, & used it to quell the 
effects of poison oak blisters on our arms/legs/etc.  My Chumash friends made
a tea out of the leaves and drank it, supposedly to avoid getting poison oak
in the first place.... though the "full-blooded" native americans supposedly
do not get poison oak. In general, the more "floppy", newer growth between 
Feb. & April often has little "root bumps" along its stems where they have 
kinda "flopped" against the ground (just like the large penstemmons do). When 
I was up in the Sierras 2 wks ago, collecting a lot of Rhus trilobata & salix
hensianna, I pulled up some and then forgot to plant it (always a hazard). 
So when 3 of us western hort "field trippers" were hiking around on Stanford 
land about 10 days ago, I pulled up part of a young "mugwort", with plenty of
roots, brought it home, & planted it. 

My purpose for planting it/having it grow is to *topically* "treat" poison oak
blister, nothing more ....although the beautiful *first-year* blue grey 
foilage, in the sort-of shape of a chicken's foot, is very striking. Collecting enough foilage to wipe out a case of poison oak *during the summer months* 
w/out coming into contact with poison oak is somewhat tricky for me *w/out*
driving farther than I want to. This particular artemesia has a symbiotic 
relationship with rhus diversiloba. If someone wants the "recipe" for getting 
rid of poison oak blisters "over night", they can contact me 

lyn dearborn


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