Artemisia arbusculaNutt.

little sagebrush

WFO wfo-0000115180 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Artemisia arbuscula, photographed by Tom Wainwright
fig. a Tom Wainwright, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199900893
Artemisia arbuscula, photographed by Justin Paulin
fig. b Justin Paulin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152192443
Artemisia arbuscula, photographed by Matt Lavin
fig. c Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172880996
Artemisia arbuscula, photographed by Drew Meyer
fig. d Drew Meyer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134873118
Artemisia arbuscula, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. e Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89377918
Artemisia arbuscula, photographed by Tim Messick
fig. f Tim Messick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84069724
Artemisia arbuscula, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. g Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79202389
Artemisia arbuscula, photographed by Matt Lavin
fig. h Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173050967

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia arbuscula is native: California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming CaliforniaColoradoIdahoMontanaNevadaOregonUtahWashingtonWyoming
Native distribution of Artemisia arbuscula, 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
California CAL NORTHERN AMERICA
Colorado COL
Idaho IDA
Montana MNT
Nevada NEV
Oregon ORE
Utah UTA
Washington WAS
Wyoming WYO

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 12 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 arbuscula var. arbuscula
  • Artemisia arbuscula var. longiloba (Osterh.) Dorn
  • Artemisia longiloba (Osterh.) Beetle
  • Artemisia spiciformis var. longiloba Osterh.
  • Artemisia tridentata subsp. arbuscula H.M.Hall & Clem.
  • Artemisia tridentata var. arbuscula (Nutt.) McMinn
  • Seriphidium arbusculum (Nutt.) W.A.Weber
  • Seriphidium arbusculum subsp. arbusculum
  • Seriphidium arbusculum subsp. longilobum (Osterh.) W.A.Weber
  • Seriphidium arbusculum var. arbusculum
  • Seriphidium arbusculum var. thermopolum (Beetle) Y.R.Ling
  • Seriphidium longilobum (Osterh.) K.Bremer & Humphries

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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