Artemisia campestris |
Artemisia douglasiana |
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beach wormwood, field sagewort, field wormwood, northern wormwood, Pacific sagewort, sand wormwood |
California mugwort, Douglas' mugwort, Douglas' sagewort, Douglas' wormwood, mugwort, northwest mugwort |
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Habit | Biennials or perennials, (10–)30–80(–150) cm, faintly aromatic; taprooted, caudices branched. | Perennials, 50–180(–250) cm, aromatic (rhizomatous). | ||||||||
Stems | usually 1–5, turning reddish brown, (often ribbed) tomentose or glabrous. |
1–20, erect, brown to gray-green, simple, hairy or glabrescent. |
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Leaves | persistent or deciduous, mostly basal; basal blades 4–12 cm; cauline gradually reduced, 2–4 × 0.5–1.5 cm, 2–3-pinnately lobed, lobes linear to narrowly oblong, apices acute, faces densely to sparsely white-pubescent. |
cauline, bicolor (white and green to light gray-green); blades narrowly elliptic to widely oblanceolate, (1–)3–11(–15) × 0.5–2(–6) cm (proximal with 3–5 lateral lobes, distal mostly entire), faces sparsely tomentose (abaxial) to sparsely hairy (adaxial). |
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Involucres | broadly turbinate, 2.5–3(–5) × 2–3.5(–7) mm. |
narrowly turbinate to campanulate, 2–3 × 2–4 mm. |
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Florets | pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–30; corollas pale yellow, sparsely hairy or glabrous. |
pistillate 6–10; bisexual 6–25; corollas pale yellow, 1–1.5 mm, glabrous, sometimes glandular. |
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Phyllaries | (margins scarious) glabrous or villous-tomentose. |
(green to gray) ovate, tomentose to pubescent. |
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Heads | (pedunculate) in (mostly leafless) paniculiform arrays. |
(usually nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–30 × 3–9 cm (branches widely spreading, ascending, stout). |
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Cypselae | oblong-lanceoloid, somewhat compressed, 0.8–1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous. |
ellipsoid, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous. |
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2n | = 54. |
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Artemisia campestris |
Artemisia douglasiana |
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Phenology | Flowering mid spring–late fall. | |||||||||
Habitat | Meadows, shaded sites, along drainages | |||||||||
Elevation | 100–2200 m (300–7200 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AK; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; FL; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; MA; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; SD; TX; UT; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NU; ON; QC; SK; especially mountains and high latitudes; Eurasia
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CA; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion | Subspecies ca. 7 (3 in the flora). Artemisia campestris varies; each morphologic form grades into another. The present circumscription is conservative in that only three subspecies are recognized; the subspecies usually can be separated geographically as well as morphologically. Populations in western North America consist primarily of subsp. pacifica; east of the continental divide, plants are assigned to subsp. canadensis in northern latitudes and to subsp. caudata in southern latitudes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Artemisia douglasiana is sometimes weedy. Reports from areas outside the northwestern portion of the United States are based on misidentifications of plants in the A. ludoviciana complex. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 506. | FNA vol. 19, p. 524. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | A. campestris var. douglasiana, A. caudata var. douglasiana, A. commutata var. douglasiana, A. desertorum var. douglasiana, A. heterophylla, A. ludoviciana var. douglasiana, A. vulgaris var. douglasiana | |||||||||
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 846. (1753) | Besser: in W. J. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 323. (1833) | ||||||||
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