| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asteraceae | Artemisia abrotanum | Southernwood, Lad’s Love, Old Man, Southern Wormwood | Disturbed areas, waif from horticultural use. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. Reported as a waif in e. Virginia (Reed 1964). |  (c) Glazunov, Valerii - CC-BY |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia absinthium | Common Wormwood, Absinthium, Ajenjo | Fields, roadsides, other disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  (c) Oldham, Michael J. - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia annua | Sweet Annie, Sweet Wormwood, Sweet Sagewort, Annual Mugwort | Barnyards, roadsides, disturbed areas, waste areas around wool-combing mills (Nesom 2004d). | Native of Asia and e. Europe. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia biennis | Biennial Wormwood | Disturbed areas, especially in sandy soils; also waif in waste area around wool-combing mills (SC). | Native of the w. United States. Reported for South Carolina by Nesom (2004d); also reported to be naturalized as far east as Tennessee and West Virginia (Hardy County). |  (c) Lamb, Eric - CC-BY |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia carruthii | Carruth's Wormwood, Kansas Mugwort | Dry grasslands; eastwards adventive in disturbed areas. | Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada south to Oklahoma, w. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and n. Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Sonora). | |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia caudata | Sand Wormwood, Beach Wormwood | Sandy woodlands, beaches and dunes, gravelly and rocky shores; also adventive in sandy fields, on roadsides, in railroad ballast, and other disturbed areas. | Native south to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas (?), Oklahoma, and Texas. Rare at Presque Isle, nw. Pennsylvania (S. Grund, pers.comm., 2021). |  (c) saari, cassi - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia dracunculus | Tarragon, Silky Wormwood, Dragon Wormwood | Dry, open areas. | Ontario west to Alaska, south to Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Mexico; Eurasia. |  (c) Quirin, Chris - CC-BY |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia filifolia | Silver Sagebush | Dry prairies and dunes, especially in sandy soils; sometimes grown horticulturally. | South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nevada south to c. Oklahoma, c. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and n. Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Tamaulipas). This taxon approaches, but does not enter our flora area. The furthest eastern counties that it has been documented occur just west of the Cross Timbers ecoprovince (e.g., Jefferson Co., OK; Kingman Co., KS). Similarly, it is not listed as present in Diggs, Lipscomb & O'Kennon (1999). |  (c) Wong, Michelle - CC-BY |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia frigida | Silver Sage, Prairie Sagewort | Roadsides and open disturbed areas. | Native of northern and western North America and Eurasia. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia ludoviciana | White Sage, White Sagewort, Prairie Sage, Western Mugwort | Prairies, roadsides, fencerows, eastwards in disturbed areas. | Michigan west to Alaska, south as a native to Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and s. Mexico. |  (c) Campos, Aidan |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia mexicana | White Sagebrush, Silver Wormwood | Prairies, forest openings, disturbed areas. | Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and California south to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico. Reported for c. Tennessee (Kartesz 2015). |  (c) Witsell, Theo - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia pontica | Roman Wormwood, Green-ginger, Old Warrior | Disturbed areas, old fields, woodland edges, roadsides, ditches. | Native of Europe. Naturalized at least as far south as Delaware, se. Pennsylvania (Rhoads & Klein 1993), and Kentucky. | |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia scoparia | Waif on ore piles. | Native of Eurasia. |  (c) Magsar, Urgamal - CC-BY | |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia stelleriana | Beach Wormwood, Dusty Miller, Hoary Mugwort | Sandy roadsides, dunes, other disturbed areas. | Native of the Aletian Islands (Alaska). This plant is reported (with documenting photograph) as naturalized and spreading in Nags Head (Dare County, North Carolina) (Graetz 1973), and also more recently with a specimen from Currituck County by R.K. Peet. |  (c) Fleming, Gary P. |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata | Big Sagebrush | Disturbed areas, waif from horticultural use. | Native of w. North America. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia verlotiorum | Chinese Mugwort | Roadsides, other disturbed areas. | Native of China. |  (c) B., Mila - CC-BY |
| Asteraceae | Artemisia vulgaris | Common Mugwort, Felon Herb | Roadsides, pastures, fencerows, disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  (c) Danielson, Erik |