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§1 Plant

Artemisia dracunculus L.

vernacular tarragon — species · Asteraceae


USDA
ARDR4
GBIF
3121581
Rank
species
tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus)
Platephotograph · Steve MatsonCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Artemisia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 421 counties across 26 states/territories
Legend Native · 417 Introduced · 4 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 421 counties across 26 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 4 I
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N
California view state ↗ 33 N
Colorado view state ↗ 35 N
Idaho view state ↗ 26 N
Illinois view state ↗ 10 N
Iowa view state ↗ 7 N
Kansas view state ↗ 22 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 34 N
Missouri view state ↗ 4 N
Montana view state ↗ 20 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 19 N
Nevada view state ↗ 12 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 23 N
New York view state ↗ 1 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 39 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N
Oregon view state ↗ 14 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 11 N
Texas view state ↗ 16 N
Utah view state ↗ 26 N
Washington view state ↗ 11 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 16 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 18 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ARDR4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3121581 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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