Artemisia campestris

Artemisia campestris
1813 illustration[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Artemisia
Species: A. campestris
Binomial name
Artemisia campestris
L. 1753 not Pursh 1813 nor Kitam. 1940
Synonyms[2]
Artemisia near Baltic Sea

Artemisia campestris is a common and widespread species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to a wide region of Eurasia and North America. Common names include field wormwood,[3] beach wormwood,[4] northern wormwood,[5] Breckland wormwood[6] boreal wormwood, Canadian wormwood, field sagewort and field mugwort.[7][8][9]

Artemisia campestris is branching, aromatic shrubs up to 150 cm (60 inches or 5 feet) tall It grows in open sites on dry sandy soils in steppes, rocky slopes, and waste areas.[8]


Subspecies[2][7][9]

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