''Artemisia monosperma'' is a species of flowering plant in the wormwood genus ''

Artemisia Artemisia may refer to: People * Artemisia I of Caria (fl. 480 BC), queen of Halicarnassus under the First Persian Empire, naval commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece * Artemisia II of Caria (died 350 BC), queen of Caria under th ...

'', family

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

, native to Libya, Egypt, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. It plays an important role in

ecological succession Ecological succession is the process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time. The time scale can be decades (for example, after a wildfire) or more or less. Bacteria allows for the cycling of nutrients such as ca ...

by stabilizing sand dunes.

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monosperma Flora of Libya Flora of Egypt Flora of Sinai Flora of Palestine (region) Flora of Lebanon Flora of Syria Flora of the Arabian Peninsula Plants described in 1813 {{Anthemideae-stub