Artemisia tanacetifoliaL.

WFO wfo-0000063420 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Artemisia tanacetifolia, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. a Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-14 / obs. 78899526

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia tanacetifolia is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, East European Russia, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaEast European RussiaNorth European RussiaNorthwest European Russia Korea
Native distribution of Artemisia tanacetifolia, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
East European Russia RUE EUROPE
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW

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 2 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.

  • Absinthium tanacetifolium (L.) Gaertn.
  • Artemisia tanacetifolia var. tanacetifolia

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.

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