Species: Artemisia stelleriana
Hoary Sagebrush
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Anthophyta
Class
Dicotyledoneae
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Artemisia
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Oldwoman - oldwoman
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Aster Family
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Anthophyta - Dicotyledoneae - Asterales - Asteraceae - Artemisia - Described from Kamchatka. Native in eastern Asia, entending to the outer Aleutian Islands of the U.S. Introduced in eastern North America and Europe. (Hulten 1968; Ohwi, 1965)
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G4?
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-11-20
Global Status Last Changed
1996-11-20
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Regional endemic of Asiatic coast of NW Pacific, from Japan and Korea along Russian coast to outermost Aleutians (Alaska, USA). Ohwi (Flora of Japan, 1965) gives range as "Hokkaido, Honshu (n. Kanto Distr. and northw.) -- Korea, Sakhalin, Kuriles, Kamchatka, and Ochotsk Sea region; natualized in Europe and North America." Hulten (1968) records for easternmost Aleutians, Alaska.