Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : artvu

Scientific name: Artemisia vulgaris L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: mugwort

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Gemeiner Beifuß ; ES : artemisia vulgar ; FR : armoise commune ; IT : assenzio selvatico ; PT : erva-de-fogo ; EN : mugwort ; NL : bijvoet ; DK : grå bynke

Biological type: Perennial

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate, with rounded tip, sessile.

- Leaves divided.

Adult plant:

- Height: 40-140 cm.

- Stem stiff, erect, angular, generally reddish or brownish, downy, strongly branched out, shaped like panicle.

- Leaves pinnate till 10 cm long often rolled, green dark on upper face, tomentose and white on the lower face.

- Flower yellowish to red in capitulum (2.5-3 mm long) with very numerous short pedicels in clustered branches of the panicle.

- Fruits: achene glabrous 2 mm.

- Plant which can cause hay fever and other allergies. But it is also a popular medicine used like emmenagogue tonic and antispasmodic.

- Risk of confusion with Artemisia verlotiorum Lamotte.

- Biological type: perennial.

Mistake with: Artemisia verlotiorum

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