Artemisia borealis |
Artemisia vulgaris |
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mugwort, lobed wormwood |
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Habit | Aromatic, perennial herb, 0.5-1.5 m. tall, simple or branched above, glabrous below the inflorescence. | |
Leaves | Leaves glabrous and green above, densely white-woolly beneath, obovate or ovate in outline, 5-10 cm. long and 3-7 cm. wide; principle leaves cleft nearly to the mid-rib into acute, unequal segments, which are again toothed or cleft, usually with one or two stipule-like lobes at the base. |
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Flowers | Inflorescence ample and leafy; involucre 3.5-4.5 mm. high, somewhat woolly; heads discoid, the flowers all fertile, the outer pistillate, the inner perfect. |
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Fruits | Achene. |
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Artemisia borealis |
Artemisia vulgaris |
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Flowering time | June-August | August-October |
Habitat | Dry subalpine to alpine meadows and fellfields. | Roadsides, fields, ditches, wastelots, and other disturbed, open areas. |
Distribution | Occurring west of the Cascades crest in the Olympic Mountains in Washington; Alaska to Washington, east to the Rocky Mountains, disjunct in California.
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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest and in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; Alaska to Oregon, east to Montana, east across Canada to the Great Lakes region and eastern North America.
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Origin | Native | Introduced from Eurasia |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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