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Artemisia pontica L.

Common Name: ROMAN WORMWOOD, WORMWOOD
Coefficient of Conservatism: *
Coefficient of Wetness: 5
Wetness Index: UPL
Physiognomy: Ad P-Forb

A European native, grown for its foliage and occasionally established along roadsides, banks, and other sandy open disturbed sites. First collected in 1912 in Cheboygan Co.

The lacy blue- or ashy-green foliage is attractive; the plant rarely forms flowers in our area, but the feathery shoots are distinctive in the short segments of the dissected leaves, which are ± tomentose on both surfaces. It forms colonies from creeping rhizomes. 

R. W. Smith

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Counties
Cheboygan
Chippewa
Crawford
Houghton
Kalamazoo
Lenawee
Mason
Oakland
Oscoda
St. Clair

Citation:
MICHIGAN FLORA ONLINE. A. A. Reznicek, E. G. Voss, & B. S. Walters. February 2011. University of Michigan. Web. March, 17, 2025
https://lsa-miflora-p.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/#/record/239