Mugwort (Edible Plants on UC Berkeley Campus)

Mugwort

Artemisia douglasiana

Description ⁴

Perennials, 50–180(–250) cm, aromatic (rhizomatous). Stems 1–20, erect, brown to gray-green, simple, hairy or glabrescent. Leaves cauline, bicolor (white and green to light gray-green); blades narrowly elliptic to widely oblanceolate, (1–)3–11(–15) × 0.5–2(–6) cm (proximal with 3–5 lateral lobes, distal mostly entire), faces sparsely tomentose (abaxial) to sparsely hairy (adaxial). Heads (usually nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–30 × 3–9 cm (branches widely spreading, ascending, stout). Involucres narrowly turbinate to campanulate, 2–3 × 2–4 mm. Phyllaries (green to gray) ovate, tomentose to pubescent. Florets: pistillate 6–10; bisexual 6–25; corollas pale yellow, 1–1.5 mm, glabrous, sometimes glandular. Cypselae ellipsoid, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous. 2n = 54.

National distribution ⁵

Canada

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Edible ⁶

This plant is quite powerful and the leaves and the buds of this plant are used for flavoring and as potherbs. They are often placed next to soup or fried rice as a side dish.

Sources and Credits

(c) stonebird, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/stonebird/642063016/
(c) stonebird, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/73431753@N00/642157970
(c) Don Loarie, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/57556735@N08/7853655800
(c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4949859
(c) NatureServe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/14724813
(c) jihyunan, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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