Artemisia annua |
Artemisia carruthii |
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annual wormwood, armoise annuelle, sweet annie, sweet sagewort |
Carruth wormwood, Carruth's sagebrush, Carruth's sagewort, Carruth's wormwood |
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Habit | Annuals, 30–200(–300) cm, sweetly aromatic. | Perennials, 15–40(–70) cm, faintly aromatic (rhizomatous). |
Stems | mostly 1, erect, green, turning to reddish brown with age, simple (smooth or ribbed), glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
mostly 3–8, ascending, brown to gray-green, simple (bases curved, somewhat woody), sparsely to densely tomentose. |
Leaves | cauline, bright green; blades triangular to broadly ovate, 2–5(–10) × 2–4 cm, 2–3-pinnatifid (lobes relatively narrow, ± toothed), faces glabrous, gland-dotted. |
cauline, bicolor (± gray-green); blades narrowly elliptic, 0.1–2.5(–3) × 0.5–1 cm (gradually smaller distally), relatively deeply pinnatifid (lobes 3–5), faces densely tomentose (abaxial) to sparsely hairy (adaxial). |
Involucres | globose, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm. |
campanulate, 2–2.5(–3) × 1.5–3 mm. |
Florets | pistillate (0–)10–20; bisexual 18–24; corollas pale yellow (broadly campanulate), 0.5–1 mm, glabrous. |
pistillate 1–5; bisexual 7–25; corollas pale yellow, 1–2 mm, glandular-pubescent. |
Phyllaries | (green) lanceolate, glabrous. |
lanceolate, gray-tomentose. |
Heads | (nodding, peduncles 2–5 mm) in open, (diffusely branched, leafy) arrays 15–30(–40) × 10–20 cm. |
(usually nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–30 × 3–9 cm (branches erect). |
Cypselae | oblong (flattened), 0.3–0.8 mm, glabrous. |
(light brown) cylindro-elliptic, ca. 0.5 mm, (curved at summits, scarcely nerved), glabrous (shining). |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Artemisia annua |
Artemisia carruthii |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering mid summer–early fall. |
Habitat | Moist waste areas, sandy soils | Open sites, usually sandy soils, wooded areas, grasslands, railroads |
Elevation | 0–2000 m (0–6600 ft) | 600–2900 m (2000–9500 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MS; MT; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; TN; TX; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; NB; ON; QC; Eurasia [Introduced in North America]
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AZ; CO; KS; MI; MO; NM; OK; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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Discussion | Widely cultivated for aromatic oils, Artemisia annua often persists in gardens, becoming naturalized in moist-temperate areas (especially in eastern United States). Reports of naturalization may be exaggerated (reported for Prince Edward Island, but not established). The systematic placement of this species appears to align most closely with species of the Eurasian subg. Seriphidium (L. E. Watson et al. 2002). Molecular evidence suggests that the Artemisia annua lineage may be ancestral to woody species in the Old World. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Artemisia carruthii is closely related to members of the A. ludoviciana complex, with which it may intergrade. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 523. | FNA vol. 19, p. 524. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia |
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Synonyms | A. chamomilla | A. bakeri, A. coloradensis, A. kansana, A. vulgaris subsp. wrightii, A. wrightii |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 847. (1753) | Alph. Wood ex Carruth: Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 5: 51. (1877) |
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