Artemisia verlotiorumLamotte

WFO wfo-0000017371 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Artemisia verlotiorum, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. a Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-11-23 / obs. 170118267
Artemisia verlotiorum, photographed by Andrea Meucci
fig. b Andrea Meucci, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 161667792
Artemisia verlotiorum, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. c Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171595889
Artemisia verlotiorum, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. d Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102584298
Artemisia verlotiorum, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. e Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 96188107
Artemisia verlotiorum, photographed by Fabien Piednoir
fig. f Fabien Piednoir, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 5051301
Artemisia verlotiorum, photographed by James K. Douch
fig. g James K. Douch, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 169565870
Artemisia verlotiorum, photographed by Parco Monte Barro
fig. h Parco Monte Barro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199103387

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Artemisia verlotiorum is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Taiwan, Assam, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaManchuriaTaiwanAssamEast HimalayaNepalPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Artemisia verlotiorum, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Manchuria CHM
Taiwan TAI
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,237 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -5.6 °C -0.3 °C 7.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.7 °C 26.6 °C 29.5 °C
Annual rainfall 592 mm 907 mm 1,619 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 86 mm 148 mm 280 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,237 research-grade observations of Artemisia verlotiorum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 8 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 leptostachya DC.
  • Artemisia selengensis Turcz.
  • Artemisia verlotiorum f. verlotiorum
  • Artemisia verlotiorum var. verlotiorum
  • Artemisia vulgaris f. angustisecta Fiori
  • Artemisia vulgaris subsp. selengensis Thell.
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. aromatica Sacc.
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. suaveolens Bég.

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.

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.