Artemisia vulgarisL.

common mugwort

WFO wfo-0000115588 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Artemisia vulgaris, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. a Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205688947
Artemisia vulgaris, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205531419
Artemisia vulgaris, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. c Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205895359
Artemisia vulgaris, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. d Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205077776
Artemisia vulgaris, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. e Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204677607
Artemisia vulgaris, photographed by Mila C.
fig. f Mila C., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204481568
Artemisia vulgaris, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. g Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203945799
Artemisia vulgaris, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. h Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204187746

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Flowering n = 783 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 783 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 20 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 vulgare (L.) Dulac
  • Artemisia cannabifolia var. cannabifolia
  • Artemisia glabrata DC.
  • Artemisia heribaudii Sennen
  • Artemisia hispanica Stechm. ex Besser
  • Artemisia indica f. indica
  • Artemisia opulenta Pamp.
  • Artemisia opulenta f. opulenta
  • Artemisia selengensis var. selengensis
  • Artemisia vulgaris subsp. coarctata V.P.Ameljczenko
  • Artemisia vulgaris subsp. urjanchaica V.P.Ameljczenko
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. brachystachya DC.
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. glabra Ledeb.
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. kamtschatica Besser
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. latiloba Ledeb.
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. merkiana Besser
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. sativa DC.
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. selengensis (Turcz. ex Besser) Maxim.
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. sylvestris DC.
  • Artemisia vulgaris var. vulgaris

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.