Artemisia umbelliformisLam.

Alpine WormwoodAlps wormwoodWhite Genepi

WFO wfo-0000007413 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 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 umbelliformis, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. a Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-07-21 / obs. 145353918

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia umbelliformis is native: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland AlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerland
Native distribution of Artemisia umbelliformis, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI

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.

Flowering 32 in flower of 38 examined

Proportion of examined Artemisia umbelliformis in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 0 0 too few examined
Apr 0 0 too few examined
May 0 0 too few examined
Jun 1 2 too few examined
Jul 16 19 84% 62% to 94%
Aug 15 17 88% 66% to 97%
Sep 0 0 too few examined
Oct 0 0 too few examined
Nov 0 0 too few examined
Dec 0 0 too few examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Artemisia umbelliformis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 32 of 38 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 23 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 laxum Lam.
  • Absinthium mutellina Roehl. ex Steud.
  • Absinthium petrosum Baumg.
  • Artemisia baumgartenii Besser
  • Artemisia delphinensis Besser
  • Artemisia eriantha Ten.
  • Artemisia eriantha var. eriantha
  • Artemisia eriantha var. magellensis Rouy
  • Artemisia gabriellae Braun-Blanq.
  • Artemisia laxa Fritsch
  • Artemisia laxiflora St.-Lag.
  • Artemisia mutellina Vill.
  • Artemisia oligantha Miégev.
  • Artemisia petrosa (Baumg.) Jan
  • Artemisia petrosa Jan ex DC.
  • Artemisia petrosa Fritsch
  • Artemisia petrosa subsp. eriantha (Ten.) Giacom. & Pignatti
  • Artemisia petrosa subsp. petrosa
  • Artemisia rupestris All.
  • Artemisia transsilvanica Schur
  • Artemisia umbelliformis subsp. gabriellae (Braun-Blanq.) Vigo
  • Artemisia villarsii Gren. & Godr.
  • Artemisia wulfenii Schleich.

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.