Artemisia laciniataC.B.Clarke

Siberian wormwood

WFO wfo-0000059260 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

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 laciniata, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. a Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-11 / obs. 136829038
Artemisia laciniata, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. b Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136888960
Artemisia laciniata, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. c Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136828490
Artemisia laciniata, photographed by Allan Harris
fig. d Allan Harris, CC0 1.0 / obs. 21053332
Artemisia laciniata, photographed by Allan Harris
fig. e Allan Harris, CC0 1.0 / obs. 21053322
Artemisia laciniata, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. f Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16404203
Artemisia laciniata, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. g Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16403687
Artemisia laciniata, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142569932

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia laciniata is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Mongolia, Primorye, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, West Himalaya, Austria, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, Yukon AltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanMongoliaPrimoryeTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaWest HimalayaAustriaCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaAlaskaColoradoIdahoNew MexicoUtahYukon
Native distribution of Artemisia laciniata, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Colorado COL
Idaho IDA
New Mexico NWM
Utah UTA
Yukon YUK
Austria AUT EUROPE
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
West Himalaya WHM ASIA-TROPICAL

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 5 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 laciniata var. laciniata
  • Artemisia libanotis M.Bieb. ex Besser
  • Artemisia macrobotrys Ledeb.
  • Artemisia parryi A.Gray
  • Artemisia saxicola var. parryi A.Nelson

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol ARLA9. public domain. 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.