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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Asteraceae
Artemisia pontica L.
Roman wormwood
Artemisia: referring to the Greek goddess Artemis who so benefited from a plant of this family that she gave it her own name
pontica: Pontus, northern coast of Turkey
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 16"-40" tall, somewhat shrubby forb; from rhizomes |
| Flower: | head yellowish; inflorescence a long, narrow, branched clusters; blooms Aug.-Sept. |
| Fruit: | 4-5 angled, dry seed widest at the top |
| Leaf: | alternate, silvery, 2-3 pinnately-divided |
| Habitat: | sun; dry |
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