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Artemisia ludoviciana (white sagebrush)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Artemisia ludoviciana is North American species in the daisy family, known by several common names, including silver wormwood, western mugwort, Louisiana wormwood, white sagebrush, and gray sagewort. Ludoviciana is the Latinized version of the word Louisiana.
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Infraspecies

Artemisia incompta var. nutt
Artemisia ludoviciana albula (White wormwood)
Artemisia ludoviciana candicans (white sagebrush)
Artemisia ludoviciana estesii
Artemisia ludoviciana gnaphalioides
Artemisia ludoviciana incompta (white sagebrush)
Artemisia ludoviciana lindleyana (Columbia River wormwood)
Artemisia ludoviciana ludoviciana
Artemisia ludoviciana mexicana (white sagebrush) (Attributes)
Artemisia ludoviciana redolens (white sagebrush)
Artemisia ludoviciana var. ludoviciana

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  There is a report that the plant can cause allergies in some people;
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Structure [3]  Shrub
Usage [2]  The plant makes a useful ground cover plant once it is established; The leaves can be placed in the shoes as a foot deodorant; An infusion of the leaves has been used as an underarm deodorant; The soft leaves can be used as a toilet paper; The plant can be burnt to repel mosquitoes;
Height [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Chaetodipus hispidus (hispid pocket mouse)[4]
Hypochlora alba (Cudweed Grasshopper)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Chaetodipus hispidus, Deborah D. Paulson, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 320, pp. 1-4 (1988)
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0