Artemisia abrotanumL.

southernwood

WFO wfo-0000024341 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Artemisia abrotanum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-28 / obs. 153765868
Artemisia abrotanum, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. b Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152839264
Artemisia abrotanum, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. c Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146135660
Artemisia abrotanum, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. d Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168615999
Artemisia abrotanum, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. e Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 96592722
Artemisia abrotanum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. f Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94612508
Artemisia abrotanum, photographed by Константин Селивёрстов
fig. g Константин Селивёрстов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82139172
Artemisia abrotanum, photographed by Николай Соболев
fig. h Николай Соболев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197507744

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia abrotanum is native: France, Italy, Spain FranceItalySpain
Native distribution of Artemisia abrotanum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
France FRA EUROPE
Italy ITA
Spain SPA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Artemisia altissima Ehrh. ex DC.
  • Artemisia anethifolia Fisch. ex DC.
  • Artemisia elatior Klokov
  • Artemisia elegans Fisch. ex Ledeb.
  • Artemisia foeniculacea Steven ex DC.
  • Artemisia herbacea Hort.Wratisl. ex Besser
  • Artemisia herbacea Ehrh.
  • Artemisia herbacea Ehrh. ex Willd.
  • Artemisia herbacea Clarke ex DC.
  • Artemisia paniculata Lam.
  • Artemisia procera Willd.
  • Artemisia proceriformis Krasch.
  • Artemisia tenuissima Spreng. ex Besser

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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