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§1 Plant
Artemisia frigida Willd.
vernacular prairie sagewort — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Artemisia
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 333 counties across 24 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -43 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–40 in/yr
- pH range
- 7–9
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 4,536,000
- Propagation
- seed, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 333 counties across 24 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 44 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Archuleta 08007
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Cheyenne 08017
- Clear Creek 08019
- Conejos 08021
- Costilla 08023
- Custer 08027
- Douglas 08035
- El Paso 08041
- Fremont 08043
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Gunnison 08051
- Huerfano 08055
- Jackson 08057
- Jefferson 08059
- La Plata 08067
- Lake 08065
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Moffat 08081
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Park 08093
- Phillips 08095
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Rio Grande 08105
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Sedgwick 08115
- Summit 08117
- Teller 08119
- Washington 08121
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Idaho view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Benton 27009
- Big Stone 27011
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Crow Wing 27035
- Douglas 27041
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lyon 27083
- Marshall 27089
- Morrison 27097
- Norman 27107
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pipestone 27117
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Roseau 27135
- Sherburne 27141
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
- Stevens 27149
- Traverse 27155
- Wabasha 27157
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
- Yellow Medicine 27173
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 53 N ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Deer Lodge 30023
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Liberty 30051
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Treasure 30103
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
Nebraska view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Cibola 35006
- Colfax 35007
- Grant 35017
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- McKinley 35031
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Adams 38001
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Billings 38007
- Bottineau 38009
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Cavalier 38019
- Divide 38023
- Dunn 38025
- Eddy 38027
- Emmons 38029
- Foster 38031
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grand Forks 38035
- Grant 38037
- Griggs 38039
- Kidder 38043
- McHenry 38049
- McIntosh 38051
- McKenzie 38053
- McLean 38055
- Mercer 38057
- Mountrail 38061
- Nelson 38063
- Oliver 38065
- Pembina 38067
- Pierce 38069
- Ramsey 38071
- Ransom 38073
- Richland 38077
- Rolette 38079
- Sargent 38081
- Sheridan 38083
- Sioux 38085
- Slope 38087
- Stark 38089
- Steele 38091
- Stutsman 38093
- Towner 38095
- Ward 38101
- Wells 38103
- Williams 38105
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Beadle 46005
- Bon Homme 46009
- Brookings 46011
- Brule 46015
- Buffalo 46017
- Butte 46019
- Codington 46029
- Corson 46031
- Custer 46033
- Day 46037
- Deuel 46039
- Fall River 46047
- Faulk 46049
- Hand 46059
- Harding 46063
- Lawrence 46081
- McPherson 46089
- Pennington 46103
- Perkins 46105
- Roberts 46109
- Stanley 46117
- Todd 46121
- Walworth 46129
- Ziebach 46137
Utah view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
Washington view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 20 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ARFR4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3121436 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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