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Artemisia frigida (Fringed sagewort)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Artemisia frigida is a widespread species of flowering plant in the aster family, which is known as the sunflower family. It is native to Europe, Asia, and much of North America. In parts of the north-central and northeastern United States it is an introduced species. Common names include fringed sagebrush, prairie sagewort, arctic sage and pasture sage. The plant is not, however, closely related to the true sages Salvia. A number of wild animals consume the plant, including white-tailed jackrabbits and sage grouse.
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Infraspecies

Artemisia frigida f. atropurpurea
Artemisia frigida gmeliniana
Artemisia frigida parva
Artemisia frigida var. fischeriana
Artemisia frigida var. foliis
Artemisia frigida var. frigida
Artemisia frigida var. intermedia
Artemisia frigida var. mongolica
Artemisia frigida var. willdiana
Artemisia frigida willdenoviana

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]  Although no reports of toxicity have been seen for this species, skin contact with some members of this genus can cause dermatitis or other allergic reactions in some people;
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Structure [3]  Shrub
Usage [2]  Both the growing and the dried plant can be used as an insect repellent; The leaves can be placed on a camp fire to repel mosquitoes; The aromatic leaves have been used in pillows etc as a deodorant; Bunches of the soft leaves have been used as towels, toilet paper etc; A green dye is obtained from the leaves;
Height [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [2]  20 inches (0.5 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ixodes angustus[4]

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
♦ 4Neotoma cinerea, Felisa A. Smith, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 564, pp. 1-8 (1997)
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Evaluating Diet Composition of Pronghorn in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, CHRISTOPHER N. JACQUES, JARET D. SIEVERS, JONATHAN A. JENKS, CHAD L. SEXTON, and DANIEL E. RODDY, The Prairie Naturalist 38(4): December 2006, pp. 239-250
♦ 7Jorrit 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.
♦ 8Lemmiscus curtatus, Lynn E. Carroll and Hugh H. Genoways, Mammalian Species No. 124, pp. 1-6 (1980)
♦ 9Lepus townsendii, Burton K. Lim, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 288, pp. 1-6 (1987)
♦ 10Food Habits of Rodents Inhabiting Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems of Central New Mexico, ANDREW G. HOPE AND ROBERT R. PARMENTER, Special Publication of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, NUMBER 9, pp. 1–75 (2007)
♦ 11Procapra przewalskii (Artiodactyla: Bovidae), DAVID M. LESLIE, JR., COLIN P. GROVES, AND ALEXEI V. ABRAMOV, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(860):124–137
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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