Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Asteraceae | Artemisia abrotanum | Southernwood, Lad’s Love, Old Man, Southern Wormwood | Disturbed areas, waif from horticultural use. | Native of Eurasia. Reported as a waif in e. VA (Reed 1964). | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia absinthium | Common Wormwood, Absinthium | Fields, roadsides, other disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. | |
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. | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia biennis var. 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 SC by Nesom (2004d); also reported to be naturalized as far east as TN and WV (Hardy County). | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia carruthii | Carruth's Wormwood, Kansas Mugwort | Dry grasslands; eastwards adventive in disturbed areas. | NE, CO, UT, and NV south to OK, w. TX, NM, AZ, and n. Mexico (BCN, CHH, NLE, SON). | |
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 NJ, PA, OH, IN, IL, MO, AR (?), OK, and TX. Rare at Presque Isle, nw. PA (S. Grund, pers.comm., 2021). | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia dracunculus | Tarragon, Silky Wormwood, Dragon Wormwood | Dry, open areas. | ON west to AK, south to IL, MO, OK, TX, NM, AZ, CA, and Mexico; Eurasia. | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia filifolia | Silver Sagebush | Dry prairies and dunes, especially in sandy soils. | SD, WY, and NV south to c. OK, c. TX, NM, AZ, and n. Mexico (CHH, COA, DGO, TAM). | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia frigida | Silver Sage, Prairie Sagewort | Roadsides and open disturbed areas. | Native of northern and western North America and Eurasia. | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia ludoviciana | White Sage, White Sagewort, Prairie Sage, Western Mugwort | Prairies, roadsides, fencerows, eastwards in disturbed areas. | MI west to AK, south as a native to IL, AR, TX, NM, AZ, CA, and s. Mexico. | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia mexicana | White Sagebrush, Silver Wormwood | Prairies, forest openings, disturbed areas. | MO, NE, CO, UT, and CA south to TX, NM, AZ, and Mexico. Reported for c. TN (Kartesz 2015). | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia pontica | Roman Wormwood, Green-ginger | Disturbed areas, old fields, woodland edges, roadsides, ditches. | Native of Europe. Naturalized at least as far south as DE, se. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993), and KY. | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia scoparia | Waif on ore piles. | Native of Eurasia. | ||
Asteraceae | Artemisia stelleriana | Beach Wormwood, Dusty Miller, Hoary Mugwort | Sandy roadsides, dunes, other disturbed areas. | Native of Japan and ne. Asia. This plant is reported (with documenting photograph) as naturalized and spreading in Nags Head (Dare County, NC) (Graetz 1973), and also more recently with a specimen from Currituck County by R.K. Peet. | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata | Big Sagebrush | Disturbed areas, waif from horticultural use. | Native of w. North America. | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia verlotiorum | Chinese Mugwort | Roadsides, other disturbed areas. | Native of China. | |
Asteraceae | Artemisia vulgaris | Common Mugwort, Felon Herb | Roadsides, pastures, fencerows, disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |
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