WorldFloraDB - Artemisia serrata

Characteristics

Perennials, 50–100(–300) cm (not cespitose), pleasantly aromatic (fibrous-rooted, rhizomes horizontal, relatively short). Stems 2–5, erect, brown, mostly simple (bases woody), sparsely tomentose. Leaves cauline, bicolor (white and green); blades lanceolate, 7–15 × 1–2.5 cm, serrate (teeth ca. 2 mm), faces densely tomentose (abaxial) or glabrate (adaxial). Heads (peduncles 0 or to 2 mm) in racemiform arrays 10–15 × 5–15 cm. Involucres campanulate, 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 mm. Phyllaries lanceolate (margins hyaline), densely tomentose. Florets: pistillate 3–5; bisexual 9–10; corollas pale yellow, 1.5–2 mm, sparsely glandular. Cypselae ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm, glabrous. 2n = 36.

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Rhizomatous perennial 1–3 m; stem glabrous or nearly so below the infl; lvs numerous, lanceolate or lance-linear, acuminate, sharply and regularly serrate, 8–15 cm × 8–25 mm, green and essentially glabrous above, densely white-tomentose beneath, sometimes with a pair of small, stipule-like lobes at base; infl ample, generally leafy, invol 2.5–3.5 mm; disk-cors 2 mm; achenes ellipsoid, not nerved or ridged; 2n=36. Prairies and low ground; Minn. and Io. to Ill., and intr. in N.Y. Aug.–Oct.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.5 - 1.0

Root system

fibrous-root rhizome

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity	-
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	medicinal
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Mode	-
Germination duration (days)	30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°)	18 - 19
Germination luminosity	light
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:180110-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000012247
COL ID	GWWM
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Artemisia serrata Artemisia vulgaris subsp. serrata

WorldFloraDB 2024

Artemisia serrata Nutt.

Sawtooth wormwood (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Artemisia