Artemisia pontica

Linnaeus

Sp. Pl. 2: 847. 1753.

Common names: Roman wormwood green-ginger armoise de la mer Noire
Introduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 531. Mentioned on page 522, 532.

Perennials, 40–100 cm, somewhat aromatic; rhizomes creeping, woody. Stems relatively numerous, erect, brown, mostly simple (brittle, bases woody) canescent or glabrate. Leaves cauline, grayish green; sessile (proximalmost short-petiolate); blades triangular to ovate, 1–5 × 1–3 cm, 2–3-pinnatifid (lobes 0.5–1 mm wide, acute), faces pubescent (abaxial) or hairy to glabrate (adaxial). Heads (nodding) in paniculiform arrays 10–22 × 2–4 cm. Involucres spheric, 1.5–2(–3) mm. Phyllaries (subequal) linear, hairy. Florets: pistillate 10–12; bisexual 40–45; corollas pale yellow, 0.2–0.3 mm, sometimes gland-dotted (stigma lobes relatively short, not emerging from tubes, short-ciliate). Cypselae ellipsoid (angled), 0.1–0.2 mm, glabrous. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat: Disturbed areas, valleys, shaded thickets
Elevation: 100–500 m

Distribution

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Introduced; Man., N.S., Ont., Que., Conn., Del., Ill., Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., N.H., N.J., N.Y., Ohio, Pa., R.I., Vt., Wis., Eurasia.

Discussion

Artemisia pontica has finely dissected gray foliage and is widely planted as an ornamental. It escapes locally; it has not been reported as problematic. The only species with which it has been confused in North America is A. abrotanum, which has dark green (not gray) foliage.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Artemisia pontica"
Leila M. Shultz +
Linnaeus +
Roman wormwood +, green-ginger +  and armoise de la mer Noire +
Man. +, N.S. +, Ont. +, Que. +, Conn. +, Del. +, Ill. +, Ky. +, Maine +, Md. +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Ohio +, Pa. +, R.I. +, Vt. +, Wis. +  and Eurasia. +
100–500 m +
Disturbed areas, valleys, shaded thickets +
Flowering late summer–fall. +
Introduced +
Artemisia sect. Abrotanum +
Artemisia pontica +
Artemisia subg. Artemisia +
species +