Artemisia furcataM.Bieb.

forked wormwood

WFO wfo-0000118586 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 furcata, photographed by John Brew
fig. a John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-07-13 / obs. 95039178
Artemisia furcata, photographed by John Brew
fig. b John Brew, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 95039137
Artemisia furcata, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. c Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49974154

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia furcata is native: Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Primorye, Yakutiya, Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Washington, Yukon AmurBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskKamchatkaKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanPrimoryeYakutiyaAlaskaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaNorthwest TerritoriesNunavutWashingtonYukon
Native distribution of Artemisia furcata, 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
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Primorye PRM
Yakutiya YAK
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
British Columbia BRC
Northwest Territories NWT
Nunavut NUN
Washington WAS
Yukon YUK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

  • Ajania furcata (M.Bieb.) Poljakov
  • Artemisia furcata subsp. flavida Vorosch. & Nechaev
  • Artemisia furcata var. furcata
  • Artemisia furcata var. heterophylla Hultén
  • Artemisia hyperborea Rydb.
  • Artemisia tacomensis Rydb.
  • Artemisia trifurcata Stephan
  • Artemisia trifurcata Steph. ex Spreng.
  • Artemisia trifurcata subsp. trifurcata
  • Artemisia yezoensis Tatew. & Kitam. ex Kitam.

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.

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.