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INTRODUCTORY
ABBREVIATION:ARTCAM SYNONYMS:
Artemisia borealis Pallas [16,19] NRCS PLANT CODE:
ARCA12 COMMON NAMES:sagewort wormwood TAXONOMY:
The scientific name of sagewort wormwood is Artemisia campestris L. (Asteraceae) [17,21,44]. The species is composed of many races and the taxonomy is confused [14]. Infrataxa of North America include: LIFE FORM:forb FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS:No legal status OTHER STATUS:Northern wormwood is state-listed as endangered in Massachusetts [9], and Wormskiold's wormwood is state-listed as endangered in Washington [42]. AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION:Howard, Janet L. (1998, March). Artemisia campestris. In: Remainder of Citation DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:
Sagewort wormwood occurs in North America and Eurasia [14,17,19]. In North America it occurs from Alaska east to Newfoundland and south to Mexico, Texas, and Florida [14,19,33,45]. Distribution of subspecies follows. ECOSYSTEMS:
FRES11 Spruce-fir STATES:
AK AZ CA CO CT FL ID
IL IN IA KS ME BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS:
1 Northern Pacific border KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:
K037 Mountain mahogany-oak scrub SAF COVER TYPES:
12 Black spruce SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES:
101 Bluebunch wheatgrass HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:
Plant species commonly associated with sagewort wormwood are listed below by state or province. VALUE AND USE
IMPORTANCE TO LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE:No information is available on this subject. PALATABILITY:No information is available on this subject. NUTRITIONAL VALUE:No information is available on this subject. COVER VALUE:No information is available on this subject. VALUE FOR REHABILITATION OF DISTURBED SITES:Sagewort wormwood is recommended for restoration work [3,4,5]. It has been successfully outplanted on the Northern Great Plains [3] and on severely disturbed alpine sites in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana [5]. OTHER USES AND VALUES:No information is available on this subject. MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS:
An increase of sagewort wormwood may indicate deteriorating rangeland conditions [20]. Sagewort wormwood tends to increase on overgrazed rangelands, especially in years of favorable precipitation [23,32]. BOTANICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS:Sagewort wormwood is a warm-season native forb from 0.8 to 40 inches (2-7 cm) tall [4,17,18]. It is usually a biennial or short-lived perennial [14], but is sometimes a facultative annual [36]. First-year leaves are basal, lobed in form, and crowded; they are usually persistent but may be deciduous [14,18]. Second-year leaves occur mostly on the upper stem and are linear, small, and few [15]. The inflorescence is a small panicle. The fruit is a small achene (< 1 mm) [17,44]. Sagewort wormwood has a taproot [14]. RAUNKIAER LIFE FORM:
Chamaephyte REGENERATION PROCESSES:Sagewort wormwood reproduces by seed. It generally grows as a rosette in the first year and produces a stem, flowers, and seed in the second or third year [25]. Little is known of sagewort wormwood germination and seedling establishment requirements. Seed is probably stored in litter or soil. Sagewort wormwood seed collected from various wetlands in southeastern Canada and stratified for 9 months began germinating after 3 days in a warm greenhouse. Germination rate after 30 days was 23 percent. At 30 days of age, root-to-shoot ratio and relative growth rate of sagewort wormwood seedlings were about average compared to other perennial herbs collected from the same wetlands [36,37]. SITE CHARACTERISTICS:
Sagewort wormwood occurs in valleys and on slopes and ridges on a variety of soil textures. It grows well in sand, and is common on sand dunes and sand prairies [23,46]. SUCCESSIONAL STATUS:
Sagewort wormwood occurs in all stages of plant succession. On the Beartooth Plateau of Montana, it colonized early seral sites severely disturbed by gravel mining, and also occurred on an adjacent late-seral Ross' avens-silver lupine (Geum rossii-Lupinus argenteus) community [8]. It has been classified as early seral on sand dunes of Lake Michigan [28] and as mid-seral on sandhill prairies of the Great Plains [7]. SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT:Flowering and fruiting dates of sagewort wormwood are as follows:
Flowers Fruits Entity
Arizona July-Oct. ---- Pacific wormwood [22]
Carolinas Sept.-Oct. ---- western wormwood [30]
Great Plains Aug.-Sept. ---- western wormwood [15]
New England July-Sept. Oct. field wormwood
New England July Sept. northern wormwood [34]
FIRE ECOLOGYFIRE ECOLOGY OR ADAPTATIONS:Published information on fire ecology of sagewort wormwood is lacking. Sagewort wormwood probably sprouts and establishes from soil-stored seed after fire. Most established plants probably have sufficient carbohydrate and water reserves stored in taproots to sprout from caudices after top-kill by fire. Plants on poor sites and facultative annuals may be killed by fire. POSTFIRE REGENERATION STRATEGY:
Caudex, growing points in soil FIRE EFFECTS
IMMEDIATE FIRE EFFECT ON PLANT:Sagewort wormwood is probably top-killed by fire. DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF FIRE EFFECT:No entry PLANT RESPONSE TO FIRE:Sagewort wormwood probably sprouts from the caudex and establishes from seed after fire. DISCUSSION AND QUALIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSE:No entry FIRE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS:No entry FIRE CASE STUDIES:No entry Artemisia campestris: References1. Bernard, Stephen R.; Brown, Kenneth F. 1977. Distribution of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians by BLM physiographic regions and A.W. Kuchler's associations for the eleven western states. Tech. Note 301. Denver, CO: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. 169 p. [434] 2. Betz, Robert F.; Lamp, Herbert F. 1992. Species composition of old settler savanna and sand prairie cemeteries in northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana. In: Smith, Daryl D.; Jacobs, Carol A., eds. 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