Artemisia dracunculus Linnaeus (Q2070)

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Artemisia dracunculus is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Artemisia subg. Dracunculus
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Artemisia dracunculus Linnaeus
Artemisia dracunculus is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Artemisia subg. Dracunculus

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    taxon/id/Artemisia dracunculus Linnaeus
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    Artemisia dracunculus Linnaeus
    Artemisia dracunculus
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Artemisia dracunculus
    estragon (French)
    dragon wormwood (English)
    dragon sagewort (English)
    wild tarragon (English)
    false tarragon (English)
    tarragon sagewort (English)
    linear-leaved wormwood (English)
    Wild tarragon (English)
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    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
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    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
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    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
    Eurasia
    Flowering mid summer–late fall.
    open meadows
    fields
    desert scrub
    moist drainages
    roadsides
    500–3000 m
    rhizomatous, caudices coarse.
    Stems relatively numerous, erect, green to brown or reddish-brown, somewhat woody, glabrous.
    Leaves: proximal blades bright green and glabrous or gray-green and sparsely hairy, 5–8 cm;
    cauline blades bright green (gray-green in desert forms), linear, lanceolate, or oblong, 1–7 × 0.1–0.5 (–0.9) cm, mostly entire, sometimes irregularly lobed, acute, usually glabrous, sometimes glabrescent (deserts).
    appearing ball-like on slender, sometimes nodding peduncles.
    Involucres globose, 2–3 × 2–3.5 (–6) mm.
    Phyllaries (light-brown, broadly lanceolate, membranous): margins broadly hyaline, glabrous.
    Florets: pistillate 6–25;
    functionally staminate 8–20;
    corollas pale-yellow, 1.8–2 mm, eglandular or sparsely glandular.