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Artemisia borealis

Artemisia vulgaris

mugwort, lobed wormwood
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.
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.
Fruits

Achene.

Artemisia borealis

Artemisia vulgaris
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
Sibling taxa
A. absinthium, A. annua, A. arbuscula, A. biennis, A. campestris, A. cana, A. douglasiana, A. dracunculus, A. frigida, A. furcata, A. ludoviciana, A. michauxiana, A. norvegica, A. rigida, A. spiciformis, A. stelleriana, A. suksdorfii, A. tilesii, A. tridentata, A. tripartita, A. vulgaris
A. absinthium, A. annua, A. arbuscula, A. biennis, A. campestris, A. cana, A. douglasiana, A. dracunculus, A. frigida, A. furcata, A. ludoviciana, A. michauxiana, A. norvegica, A. rigida, A. spiciformis, A. stelleriana, A. suksdorfii, A. tilesii, A. tridentata, A. tripartita
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