I and many American states consider this plant as a noxious weed. It is one of the most invasive weeds in much of eastern and middle-western North America. It is native to Europe to Iran into Siberia and to North Africa. It was brought as a medicinal herb to the British colonies in the 1600's and got loose and naturalized. One has to be very careful if one uses this for some medical uses because too much of this is toxic. It emerges in spring looking like a young Chrysanthemum and even with the fragrant crushed foliage smelling like a Mum. However, it gets bigger and sprawls a lot. It is not a good-looking perennial and it spread aggressively from its many big white rhizomes (underground stems), creating colonies. I've seen huge swaths of this weed being much of meadow in southeast Pennsylvania. It takes many attacks of digging, hoeing, pulling, and/or herbicide applications to kill it off. It should be exterminated anywhere outside its native range. I don't know of any insect or any kind of animal feeding off of this species in North America; so, it is not useful for animal life here. The generic name of Artemisia comes from the name of Artemis, the Greek Goddess of the Moon; I am sure named after some better species of this genus.

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Could be considered invasive.
Could be considered architectural.

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