Artemisia alpinaPall. ex Willd.

WFO wfo-0000044992 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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 alpina, photographed by Пані Тимошенко
fig. a Пані Тимошенко, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-01-05 / obs. 114649786
Artemisia alpina, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. b Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76148883
Artemisia alpina, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. c Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178303507
Artemisia alpina, photographed by Пані Тимошенко
fig. d Пані Тимошенко, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 114649916
Artemisia alpina, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. e Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76148910
Artemisia alpina, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. f Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31187368
Artemisia alpina, photographed by Татьяна Прозорова
fig. g Татьяна Прозорова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 39294519
Artemisia alpina, photographed by Татьяна Прозорова
fig. h Татьяна Прозорова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 38563525

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia alpina is native: North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Krym, Romania, Ukraine North CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeBulgariaKrymRomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Artemisia alpina, 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
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Krym KRY
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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 11 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.

  • Absinthium lanatum (Willd.) Besser
  • Artemisia argentata Klokov
  • Artemisia caucasica Willd.
  • Artemisia caucasica var. brachyphylla Boiss.
  • Artemisia caucasica var. caucasica
  • Artemisia chamissonis Besser
  • Artemisia chewsurica Sommier & Levier
  • Artemisia grossheimii Krasch. ex Poljakov
  • Artemisia lanulosa Klokov
  • Artemisia monticola K.Koch
  • Artemisia pumila hort. ex Link

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.

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