Artemisia vulgaris
Common mugwort, Hierba de san juan Taxonomy
Synonyms: Subspecific taxa: Classification:
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Species Distribution
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Absent: Not known from county Medium confidence: Medium or unknown confidence; often old records or unverifiable observations Medium-high confidence: Often observations by expert botanists High confidence: Often vouchered herbarium records Planted / introduced: Native species introduced outside historic range, or only in planted locations within county (e.g., restorations) Historic / extirpated: Only historic records for the species; likely extirpated (Note that this category is not yet functional) North American distribution maps for this species: FLNA;  USDA Plants;  BONAP;  BISON
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Species Status
Status/Listing: No Information Notes: Origin: Europe
Species Description
General: Dicot-herb, perennial Roots: adventitious, rhizomes Shoots: alternate leaf arrangment; simple leaf type; entire, serrate, lobed (pinnately), parted (pinnately) leaf margin; Pinnate leaf venation; awl-shaped, linear, lanceolate leaf shape Inflorescence: head Flowers: perfect, unisexual, monoecious; complete, incomplete, regular, irregular; epigynous ovary position Fruit: achene Physiology: autotrophic Reproduction: sexual, vegetative
Ecology & Natural History
Habitat: Species is distributed along railroads and waste ground. ILPIN Notes: Species escaped from cultivation. Species used as ornamental foliage and home medicament. Sometimes it is used as aromatic, bitter condiment. It sheds fairly large amounts of pollen but is seldom abundant anough to be of much importance in hayfever. Species is associated with following conditions: epileptic spasms, profuse sweat with odor of garlic, violent uterine contractions, pains, prolapse and rupture; miscarriage, metrorrhagia and increased lochial discharge. Pammel, L.H. 1911. A Manual of Poisonous Plants. Torch Press. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 977 pp. Species is found in Champaign, Cook, & Henry counties. Flowers are all fertile, the outer ones are pistillate. Leaves are densely woolly-silky; white, silver, or gray, at least on lower surface. Leaf or petiole base has conspicuous small, dissected segments or stipule-like lobes. Functional Relationships:
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