Field Wormwood

Artemisia campestris

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Plant Data

Flowering Months:

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Order:

Asterales

Family:

Asteraceae (Daisy)

Also in this family:

Annual Sunflower, Autumn Hawkbit, Beaked Hawksbeard, Black Knapweed, Black-eyed Susan, Blanketflower, Blue Fleabane, Blue Globe-thistle, Bristly Oxtongue, Butterbur, Buttonweed, Canadian Fleabane, Canadian Goldenrod, Carline Thistle, Chalk Knapweed, Coltsfoot, Common Blue Sow-thistle, Common Cat's-ear, Common Daisy, Common Dandelion, Common Fleabane, Common Goldenrod, Common Groundsel, Common Michaelmas Daisy, Common Mugwort, Common Ragwort, Confused Michaelmas Daisy, Corn Marigold, Cornflower, Creeping Thistle, Dwarf Thistle, Early Goldenrod, Feverfew, Fox and Cubs, Gallant Soldier, Garden Lettuce, Goat's Beard, Great Lettuce, Greater Burdock, Greater Knapweed, Grey-headed Hawkweed, Heath Groundsel, Hemp Agrimony, Hoary Ragwort, Lavender-cotton, Leopardsbane, Lesser Burdock, Lesser Hawkbit, Marsh Cudweed, Marsh Hawksbeard, Marsh Ragwort, Marsh Thistle, Melancholy Thistle, Mexican Fleabane, Mountain Everlasting, Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Musk Thistle, Narrow-leaved Ragwort, New England Hawkweed, Nipplewort, Oxeye Daisy, Oxford Ragwort, Perennial Cornflower, Perennial Sow-thistle, Pineapple Mayweed, Ploughman's Spikenard, Pot Marigold, Prickly Lettuce, Prickly Sow-thistle, Red-seeded Dandelion, Rough Hawkbit, Rough Hawksbeard, Scented Mayweed, Scentless Mayweed, Sea Aster, Sea Mayweed, Sea Wormwood, Seaside Daisy, Shaggy Soldier, Shasta Daisy, Shrub Ragwort, Silver Ragwort, Smooth Hawksbeard, Smooth Sow-thistle, Sneezeweed, Sneezewort, Spear Thistle, Spotted Cat's-ear, Sticky Groundsel, Tansy, Trifid Bur-marigold, Tyneside Leopardplant, Wall Lettuce, White Buttons, Winter Heliotrope, Wood Burdock, Yarrow

Type:

Flower

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Maximum Size:

125 centimetres tall

Habitats:

Farmland, grassland, heathland, roadsides, rocks, wasteland, woodland.

Flower:

Yellow, no petals

Small tubular, yellowish brown flowers, up to 4mm across. 5 stamens per flower.

Fruit:

The fruit is a light brown achene, up to 1mm long. An achene is a type of dry, one-seeded fruit. The seeds ripen from August to October.

Leaves:

Alternate, 2 to 3-pinnate leaves which are narrow and thread-like. Only the lower leaves are stalked. The fleshy leaves are hairy when young but become smooth and hairless with age. Perennial.

Other Names:

Beach Wormwood, Boreal Wormwood, Breckland Wormwood, Canadian Wormwood, Field Mugwort, Field Sagebrush, Field Sagewort, Field Southernwood, Northern Wormwood, Prairie Sagewort, Tall Wormwood.

Frequency (UK):

Rarely seen

Distribution Map

Reproduced by kind permission of the BSBI.

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