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Artemisia campestris (field sagewort)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Artemisia campestris is a common and widespread species of plants in the sunflower family. It is native to a wide region of Eurasia and North America. Common names include field wormwood, beach wormwood, northern wormwood, Breckland wormwood boreal wormwood, Canadian wormwood, field sagewort and field mugwort. Artemisia campestris is branching, aromatic shrubs up to 150 cm (60 inches or 5 feet) tall It grows in open sites on dry sandy soils in steppes, rocky slopes, and waste areas.
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Infraspecies

Artemisia campestris campestris (Attributes)
Artemisia campestris cinerea
Artemisia campestris lednicensis
Artemisia campestris lempergii
Artemisia campestris sericea
Artemisia campestris var. campestris
Artemisia campestris var. glomerata
Artemisia campestris var. latisecta
Artemisia campestris var. marschalliana
Artemisia campestris var. steveniana
Artemisia campestris variabilis
Artemisia lanata var. alpina

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Height [2]  24 inches (.6 m)
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [4]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry

Predators

Hesperotettix viridis (Snakeweed Grasshopper)[5]
Melanoplus angustipennis (Narrow-winged Locust)[5]
Ostrinia furnacalis[5]
Oxyna parietina[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces artemisiae[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 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