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Artemisia dracunculus (Tarragon)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus), also known as estragon, is a species of perennial herb in the sunflower family. It is widespread in the wild across much of Eurasia and North America, and is cultivated for culinary and medicinal purposes in many lands.
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Infraspecies

Artemisia dracunculus f. chinensis
Artemisia dracunculus f. intermedia
Artemisia dracunculus var. changaica
Artemisia dracunculus var. dracunculus
Artemisia dracunculus var. inodora
Artemisia dracunculus var. qinghaiensis
Artemisia dracunculus var. turkestanica

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
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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