Artemisia annua |
Artemisia pattersonii |
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annual wormwood, armoise annuelle, sweet annie, sweet sagewort |
Patterson sagewort, Patterson's wormwood |
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Habit | Annuals, 30–200(–300) cm, sweetly aromatic. | Perennials, 8–20 cm, mildly aromatic. |
Stems | mostly 1, erect, green, turning to reddish brown with age, simple (smooth or ribbed), glabrous or sparsely hairy. |
gray-brown, glabrate or finely pubescent. |
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. |
deciduous, gray-green; petiolate; blades (basal) broadly spatulate, 2–4 × 0.5 cm, pinnately lobed (lobes ca. 1.5 mm wide; cauline smaller, 1-pinnately lobed or entire), faces silky-hairy. |
Involucres | globose, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm. |
broadly hemispheric, 5–8 × 5–8(–10) mm. |
Florets | pistillate (0–)10–20; bisexual 18–24; corollas pale yellow (broadly campanulate), 0.5–1 mm, glabrous. |
pistillate 7–27; bisexual 32–100; corollas (yellow tinged with red), 2–3 mm (including exsert anthers), mostly glabrous (embedded in tangled receptacular hairs). |
Phyllaries | (green) lanceolate, glabrous. |
gray (margins dark brown to black), villous. |
Heads | (nodding, peduncles 2–5 mm) in open, (diffusely branched, leafy) arrays 15–30(–40) × 10–20 cm. |
borne singly or (2–5, spreading to nodding, pedunculate) in paniculiform or racemiform arrays 1–5 × 0.5–1 cm. |
Cypselae | oblong (flattened), 0.3–0.8 mm, glabrous. |
1.5–2 mm, glabrous. |
2n | = 18. |
= 14. |
Artemisia annua |
Artemisia pattersonii |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. | Flowering mid–late summer. |
Habitat | Moist waste areas, sandy soils | Alpine meadows |
Elevation | 0–2000 m (0–6600 ft) | 3500–4000 m (11500–13100 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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CO; NM; WY |
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 pattersonii can be distinguished from the closely related A. scopulorum by its heads being borne singly and narrower phyllary margins. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 523. | FNA vol. 19, p. 520. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Absinthium |
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Synonyms | A. chamomilla | A. monocephala, A. scopulorum var. monocephala |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 847. (1753) | A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2, 1(2): 453. (1886) |
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