
''Artemisia campestris'' is a common and widespread species of plants in the sunflower family,
Asteraceae
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. It is native to a wide region of
Eurasia
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and
North America
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.
Common names include field wormwood,
beach wormwood, northern wormwood, Breckland wormwood,
boreal wormwood, Canadian wormwood, field sagewort and field mugwort.
[Altervista Flora Italiana, Assenzio di campo, ''Artemisia campestris'' L.]
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''Artemisia campestris'' is a branching, aromatic
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plant up to tall. It grows in open sites on dry sandy soils, in steppes
In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the tropical and subtropical gr ...
, rocky slopes, and waste areas.[
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Subspecies
The following subspecies are accepted:
* ''Artemisia campestris'' subsp. ''borealis'' (Pall.) H.M.Hall & Clem.
* ''Artemisia campestris subsp. bottnica'' Lundstr. ex Kindb.
*''Artemisia campestris'' subsp. ''campestris''
*''Artemisia campestris'' subsp. ''canadensis'' (Michx.) Scoggan
*''Artemisia campestris'' subsp. ''caudata'' (Michx.) H.M.Hall & Clem.
*''Artemisia campestris'' subsp. ''cinerea''
*''Artemisia campestris'' subsp. ''glutinosa'' (Gay ex Bess.) Batt.
*''Artemisia campestris'' subsp. ''lednicensis'' (Spreng.) Greuter & Raab-Straube
*''Artemisia campestris'' subsp. ''pacifica'' H.M.Hall & Clem.
*''Artemisia campestris'' subsp. ''variabilis'' (Ten.) Greuter
References
External links
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LuontoPortti Naturegate
Tree of Life
On-line Atlas of the British & Irish Flora
Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia
Pollen Library
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campestris
Flora of Northern America
Flora of Europe
Flora of Asia
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus