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Artemisia

Called “mugworts” in GBIF

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants belonging to the daisy family, Asteraceae, with almost 500 species. Common names for various species in the genus include mugwort, wormwood, and sagebrush.

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573
accepted species in GBIF
Source: GBIF
2
plants on Plant News
5
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Plants in this genus

2 plants

Research on Artemisia

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What science is finding about Artemisia

Every article on Plant News that mentions a member of this genus, newest first.

Latest finding

Plant immune responses can boost medicinal compound production

A new review pulls together what scientists know about how medicinal plants like ginseng, cannabis, and licorice defend themselves from disease, and shows that the same immune signals triggering their defenses also ramp up production of the compounds that make them valuable as medicine.

Aging mugwort plants recruit busier microbial helpers in their soil

The wild mugwort growing along trails and roadsides is quietly running a soil nutrient factory that gets more active as the...

Mugwort soil-health / phenology

Ancient healing plants hold clues to fighting drug-resistant infections

Many of the herbs your grandmother might have grown for tea or tonics, like licorice root or barberry, contain compounds...

Sweet wormwood medicinal-plants / ethnobotany

Sweet wormwood compound outperforms existing drugs in colorectal cancer simulations

Artemisia annua, the feathery annual wormwood grown in herb gardens and already famous for yielding the malaria drug...

Sweet wormwood medicinal-plants / ethnobotany

Plants and Plant-Derived Compounds Mediate Protection Across Diverse Pathological Conditions by Targeting the PANoptosis Pathways.

The sulforaphane in your garden broccoli and kale is now showing up in lab studies as a molecular brake on the exact runaway...

Mugwort medicinal-plants / ethnobotany