Artemisia ponticaL.

Roman wormwood

WFO wfo-0000080179 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Artemisia pontica, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. a Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201977894
Artemisia pontica, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. b Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194366139
Artemisia pontica, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. c Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158572569
Artemisia pontica, photographed by Zoltán Nagy
fig. d Zoltán Nagy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159176689
Artemisia pontica, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. e Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 152641890
Artemisia pontica, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. f Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 142874128
Artemisia pontica, photographed by Valerii Glazunov
fig. g Valerii Glazunov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138383264
Artemisia pontica, photographed by mnauky
fig. h mnauky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85772893

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia pontica is native: Altay, China North-Central, Inner Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayChina North-CentralInner MongoliaKazakhstanKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusWest SiberiaXinjiangAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Artemisia pontica, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
Inner Mongolia CHI
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

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 1 synonym

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 ponticum (L.) Garsault

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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