''Artemisia alba'', called white mugwort, white wormwood, white artemisia, or camphor southernwood, is a species of ''
Artemisia'' native to Spain, France, Belgium, Italy, Sicily, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and the Balkans.
Its currently unrecognized subtaxon ''Artemisia alba'' 'Canescens' has gained the
Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit
The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is based on assessment of the plants' performance under UK growing conditions.
It includes the full range of cultivated p ...
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Subspecies
The following subspecies are currently accepted:
*''Artemisia alba'' subsp. ''alba''
*''Artemisia alba'' subsp. ''chitachensis''
*''Artemisia alba'' subsp. ''glabrescens''
(Willk.) Valdés Berm.
*''Artemisia alba'' subsp. ''kabylica''
(Chabert) Greuter
References
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alba
''Alba'' ( , ) is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. It is also, in English-language historiography, used to refer to the polity of Picts and Scots united in the ninth century as the Kingdom of Alba, until it developed into the Kingd ...
Plants described in 1764