Artemisia annua |
Artemisia franserioides |
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annual wormwood, armoise annuelle, sweet annie, sweet sagewort |
bursage mugwort, ragweed sagebrush |
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Habit | Annuals, 30–200(–300) cm, sweetly aromatic. | Biennials or perennials, 30–100 cm, faintly aromatic (rhizomatous). |
Stems | mostly 1, erect, green, turning to reddish brown with age, simple (smooth or ribbed), glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
1–3, erect, reddish brown, simple (leafy), glabrous or glabrate. |
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. |
basal (in rosettes, petiolate) and cauline, bicolor (white and green); blades ovate, 3–7(–20) × 2–4(–6) cm, 2–3-pinnately-lobed (lobes elliptic, 2–6 mm wide; cauline sessile, smaller), faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous or glabrescent (adaxial), glandular. |
Involucres | globose, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm. |
broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm. |
Florets | pistillate (0–)10–20; bisexual 18–24; corollas pale yellow (broadly campanulate), 0.5–1 mm, glabrous. |
pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm); bisexual 25–35; corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous. |
Phyllaries | (green) lanceolate, glabrous. |
broadly ovate, sparsely hairy. |
Heads | (nodding, peduncles 2–5 mm) in open, (diffusely branched, leafy) arrays 15–30(–40) × 10–20 cm. |
(nodding, peduncles 0 or 2) in paniculiform to racemiform arrays 10–35 × 2–4 cm (often 1-sided). |
Cypselae | oblong (flattened), 0.3–0.8 mm, glabrous. |
elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous. |
2n | = 18. |
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Artemisia annua |
Artemisia franserioides |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering late summer–early fall. |
Habitat | Moist waste areas, sandy soils | Open coniferous forests, mid to upper montane |
Elevation | 0–2000 m (0–6600 ft) | 2200–3100 m (7200–10200 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; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 523. | FNA vol. 19, p. 525. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia |
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Synonyms | A. chamomilla | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 847. (1753) | Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 10: 42. (1883) |
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