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Artemisia sieversiana Ehrh. ex Willd.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Artemisia

Characteristics

A herb. It grows over one or two years. It grows 30-100 cm high. It usually has a single stem. The leaves are hairy on both sides. The leaves are triangle oval shape and 3-10 cm long by 2-6 cm wide. They are often divided into 3 segments
Life form
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Stony ground, especially in Ladakh, and also in dry areas of Nepal; at elevations from 1,500-4,100 metres. Roadsides, waste places, steppes, hillsides, forest margins; at elevations from sea level to 4,200 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows on roadsides, waste places, steppe, hillsides and forest margins from sea level to 4200 m altitude in China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-5
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

Usage

The seeds are eaten as a grain. The whole plant is boiled in water. The leaves are also eaten raw.
Uses essential oil medicinal wood
Edible leaves seeds
Therapeutic use Anti-infective agents, local (unspecified), Anti-inflammatory agents (unspecified), Antipruritics (unspecified), Asthenia (unspecified), Edema (unspecified), Gout (unspecified), Heart diseases (unspecified), Hemostatics (unspecified), Hypnotics and sedatives (unspecified), Hysteria (unspecified), Intestinal diseases, parasitic (unspecified), Jaundice (unspecified), Nervous system diseases (unspecified), Splenic diseases (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 18
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Artemisia sieversiana world distribution map, present in Anguilla, China, India, and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:180122-1
WFO ID wfo-0000081609
COL ID GWN9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Artemisia sparsa Artemisia chrysolepis Artemisia koreana Carpesium gigas Artemisia controversa Artemisia absinthioides Artemisia moxa Absinthium sieversianum Artemisia sieversiana f. sieversiana Artemisia sieversiana Artemisia sieversiana var. sieversiana Artemisia sieversiana var. koreana
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