Artemisia desertorumSpreng.

WFO wfo-0000010461 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 desertorum, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. a Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-07-17 / obs. 60359269
Artemisia desertorum, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. b Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60359331
Artemisia desertorum, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. c Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60359318
Artemisia desertorum, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. d Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60359338

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3504558
Filed as
Artemisia desertorum Spreng.
Det. by
Yilin Chen
Collected
Tibet-MacArthur, D. A. Bell, V. Funk, S. Ge, Y. Meng, Z. Nie, R. Ree, J. Wen, S. K. Wu, Z. Yang, J. Yue & W. Zuo 2006-09-06
Origin
CN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia desertorum is native: Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Khabarovsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang, East Himalaya, Nepal, West Himalaya AmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKhabarovskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiTibetXinjiangEast HimalayaNepalWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Artemisia desertorum, 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
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Khabarovsk KHA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Tibet CHT
Xinjiang CHX
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
West Himalaya WHM

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 10 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 cannabina Jacq. ex DC.
  • Artemisia desertorum f. desertorum
  • Artemisia desertorum var. lineata G.Y.Zhang
  • Artemisia foetida Jacquem. ex Besser
  • Artemisia glabra Jacq. ex DC.
  • Artemisia neglecta Spreng. ex Willd.
  • Artemisia pauciflora Spreng.
  • Artemisia stricta Fisch. ex Herder
  • Draconia desertorum (Spreng.) Soják
  • Oligosporus desertorum (Spreng.) Poljakov

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.