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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 North 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
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 ...
. It is native to a wide region of Eurasia
Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelag ...
and North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and th ...
. 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 chemistry, aromaticity is a chemical property of cyclic ( ring-shaped), ''typically'' planar (flat) molecular structures with pi bonds in resonance (those containing delocalized electrons) that gives increased stability compared to satur ...
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 trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grassland ...
, 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 North America Flora of Europe Flora of Asia Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus