Artemisia campestris is a common and widespread species of plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. It is native to a wide region of Eurasia and North America.[3] Common names include field wormwood,[4] beach wormwood,[5] northern wormwood,[6] Breckland wormwood,[7] boreal wormwood, Canadian wormwood, field sagewort and field mugwort.[8][9][10]
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Artemisia |
Species: | A. campestris
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Artemisia campestris | |
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Artemisia campestris is a branching, aromatic plant up to 150 cm (5 ft) tall. It grows in open sites on dry sandy soils, in steppes, rocky slopes, and waste areas.[9]
Subspecies
editThe following subspecies are accepted:[2]
- Artemisia campestris subsp. borealis (Pall.) H.M.Hall & Clem.
- Artemisia campestris subsp. bottnica Lundstr. ex Kindb.
- Artemisia campestris subsp. campestris
- Artemisia campestris subsp. canadensis (Michx.) Scoggan
- Artemisia campestris subsp. caudata (Michx.) H.M.Hall & Clem.
- Artemisia campestris subsp. cinerea
- Artemisia campestris subsp. glutinosa (Gay ex Bess.) Batt.
- Artemisia campestris subsp. lednicensis (Spreng.) Greuter & Raab-Straube
- Artemisia campestris subsp. pacifica H.M.Hall & Clem.
- Artemisia campestris subsp. variabilis (Ten.) Greuter
References
edit- ^ "Artemisia campestris". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
- ^ a b "Artemisia campestris L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ^ Hill, Chris (2021-02-03). "'Incredibly rare' plants burst into life on busy industrial estate". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ Hilty, John (2020). "Beach Wormwood (Artemisia campestris caudata)". Illinois Wildflowers.
- ^ Second alternative name
- ^ "3rd alternative name". Archived from the original on 2012-04-09. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
- ^ Shultz, Leila M. (2006). "Artemisia campestris". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 19. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
- ^ a b Lin, Yourun; Humphries, Christopher J.; Gilbert, Michael G. "Artemisia campestris". Flora of China. Vol. 20–21 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
- ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Assenzio di campo, Artemisia campestris L.