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Artemisia mexicana

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Name

Identification
Artemisia ludoviciana Nuttall [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by M. L. Fernald, Isotype of Artemisia lindheimeriana Scheele [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by Scheele, 1849 Artemisia vulgaris Linnaeus [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by A. Gray, Artemisia mexicana Willdenow ex Sprengel [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by A. Gray,
Related name
  • Artemisia ghiesbreghtii
  • Artemisia vulgaris
  • Artemisia muelleri
  • Artemisia cuneifolia
  • Artemisia rhizomata
  • Artemisia mexicana
  • Artemisia revoluta
  • Artemisia ludoviciana
  • Artemisia lindheimeriana
Common name
  • Mexican wormwood, Flora of North America Vol. 19

Flora

Entry for Artemisia ludoviciana Nuttall subsp. mexicana (Willdenow ex Sprengel) D. D. Keck [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 19,
Names
Artemisia ludoviciana Nuttall subsp. mexicana (Willdenow ex Sprengel) D. D. Keck [family COMPOSITAE], Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser., 4, 25: 452. 1946
Artemisia mexicana Willdenow ex Sprengel [family COMPOSITAE], Syst. Veg., 3: 490. 1826
Artemisia neomexicana Greene ex Rydberg [family COMPOSITAE]
Artemisia revoluta Rydberg [family COMPOSITAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Leila M. Shultz
Information
Stems 30–80(–100) cm, widely branched, sparsely hairy or glabrous. Leaves strongly bicolor (white and green, or gray-green and green), narrowly lanceolate, 4–10 × 0.5–1 cm, lobed; faces ± tomentose (abaxial) or glabrescent. Heads in paniculiform or racemiform arrays 1–8 × 2–5 cm. Involucres (campanulate) 3–4 × 2–3 mm. Florets: pistillate (5–)8–10; bisexual (6–)10–20; corollas ca. 1.5 mm. 2n = 18, 36.
Phenology
jun-aug (summer), sep-nov (fall)
Altitude range
500–1000 m;
Distribution
Mexico.USA Ariz.USA Colo.USA Nev.USA N.Mex.USA Okla.USA Tex.

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