Artemisia albaTurra

WFO wfo-0000002713 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Artemisia alba, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. a Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-10-04 / obs. 98762212
Artemisia alba, photographed by Drepanostoma
fig. b Drepanostoma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6018909
Artemisia alba, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. c Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 98762383
Artemisia alba, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. d Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 98762311
Artemisia alba, photographed by Andrea Meucci
fig. e Andrea Meucci, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 45496752
Artemisia alba, photographed by Andrea Mologni
fig. f Andrea Mologni, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195464945
Artemisia alba, photographed by Andrea Mologni
fig. g Andrea Mologni, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195464986

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia alba is native: Algeria, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tadzhikistan, Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoKazakhstanMongoliaTadzhikistanAlbaniaBelgiumBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSiciliaSpain
Native distribution of Artemisia alba, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Kazakhstan KAZ ASIA-TEMPERATE
Mongolia MON
Tadzhikistan TZK
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

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 67 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.

  • Abrotanum alpestre Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum ambiguum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum brachylobium Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum congestum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum incanescens Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum pauciflorum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum pedunculare Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum platylobum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum pulverulentum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum rhodanicum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum suave Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum virgatum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum viridulum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Abrotanum xerophilum Jord. & Fourr.
  • Absinthium camphoratum (Vill.) Besser
  • Absinthium corymbosum (Lam.) DC.
  • Absinthium grandiflorum Besser
  • Absinthium saxatile (Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd.) Besser
  • Absinthium virgatum Turcz. ex Ledeb.
  • Absinthium viride Besser
  • Absinthium viridiflorum var. viridiflorum
  • Artemisia abrotanum Savi
  • Artemisia achilleifolia Ten.
  • Artemisia alba subsp. camphorata (Vill.) P.Fourn.

and 43 more.

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. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.