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§1 Plant

Artemisia vulgaris L.

vernacular common wormwood — species · Asteraceae


USDA
ARVU
GBIF
3120946
Rank
species
common wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris)
Platephotograph · Valentin HamonCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Artemisia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 82 counties across 12 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 82 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 82 counties across 12 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 1 I
Indiana view state ↗ 2 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 17 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 I
New York view state ↗ 11 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 16 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 4 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I
Virginia view state ↗ 2 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ARVU ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3120946 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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