Artemisia campestris is a common and widespread species of plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. It is native to a wide region of Eurasia and North America. Common names include field wormwood, beach wormwood, northern wormwood, Breckland wormwood, boreal wormwood, Canadian wormwood, field sagewort and field mugwort.
Artemisia campestris is a branching, aromatic plant up to tall. It grows in open sites on dry sandy soils, in steppes, rocky slopes, and waste areas.
Subspecies
The following subspecies are accepted:
- Artemisia campestris subsp. borealis <small>(Pall.) H.M.Hall & Clem.</small>
- Artemisia campestris subsp. bottnica <small>Lundstr. ex Kindb.</small>
- Artemisia campestris subsp. campestris
- Artemisia campestris subsp. canadensis <small>(Michx.) Scoggan</small>
- Artemisia campestris subsp. caudata <small>(Michx.) H.M.Hall & Clem.</small>
- Artemisia campestris subsp. cinerea
- Artemisia campestris subsp. glutinosa <small>(Gay ex Bess.) Batt.</small>
- Artemisia campestris subsp. lednicensis <small>(Spreng.) Greuter & Raab-Straube</small>
- Artemisia campestris subsp. pacifica <small>H.M.Hall & Clem.</small>
- Artemisia campestris subsp. variabilis <small>(Ten.) Greuter</small>
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