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<i>Artemisia campestris</i>

Artemisia campestris

Species of flowering plant

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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Artemisia campestris near the Baltic Sea

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

The 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

  1. [1]
    "Artemisia campestris". The Global Compositae Checklist (GCC) – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
  2. [2]
    "Artemisia campestris L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. [3]
    Hill, Chris (2021-02-03). "'Incredibly rare' plants burst into life on busy industrial estate". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  4. [4]
    BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  5. [5]
    Hilty, John (2020). "Beach Wormwood (Artemisia campestris caudata)". Illinois Wildflowers.
  6. [6]
    Second alternative name
  7. [7]
    "3rd alternative name". Archived from the original on 2012-04-09. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  8. [8]
    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.
  9. [9]
    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.
  10. [10]
    Altervista Flora Italiana, Assenzio di campo, Artemisia campestris L.
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