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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Asteraceae
Artemisia annua L.
annual sage-wort, sweet wormwood
Artemisia: referring to the Greek goddess Artemis who so benefited from a plant of this family that she gave it her own name
annua: Latin for "yearly" usually referring to a plant which lives only one season
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 1'-10' tall, very bushy, sweet-smelling forb |
| Flower: | inflorescence loose, branched, dense clusters |
| Fruit: | top-shaped dry seed |
| Leaf: | mostly hairless, not silvery, feathery  |
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