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''Artemisia campestris'' is a common and widespread species of plants in the sunflower family,
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q783863 campestris Flora of Northern America Flora of Europe Flora of Asia Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
''Artemisia campestris'' is a common and widespread species of plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae
Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...
. It is native to a wide region of Eurasia
Eurasia ( , ) is a continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. According to some geographers, Physical geography, physiographically, Eurasia is a single supercontinent. The concept of Europe and Asia as distinct continents d ...
and North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...
. 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./ref> ''Artemisia campestris'' is a branching,
aromatic
In organic chemistry, aromaticity is a chemical property describing the way in which a conjugated system, conjugated ring of unsaturated bonds, lone pairs, or empty orbitals exhibits a stabilization stronger than would be expected from conjugati ...
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.
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.) GreuterReferences
External links
*LuontoPortti Naturegate
{{Taxonbar, from=Q783863 campestris Flora of Northern America Flora of Europe Flora of Asia Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus