Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.

ASTERACEAE

- Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 988 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Annual ragweed

English name: annual ragweed

English name: bitterweed

Spanish name: artemisia de terra

French name: petit herbe à poux

Italian name: Ambrosia con foglie di artemisia

German name: Traubenkraut

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. var. artemisiifolia
2) Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. var. elatior (L.) Descourtils
3) Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. var. paniculata (Michx.) Blank.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Ambrosia
Species:

Page counter: 3149 ( AVG: 223.03 / 292.019 )

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Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Fruit at Gasparilla, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, nei pressi del Silos, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Flowers at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Stazione Ferroviaria di Palmanova, UD, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Leaves at John Prince Park Lake Worth, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Berlin, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Monfalcone, centro abitato., GO, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Sgonico, ai margini della strada presso il tracciato del metanodotto. , TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Habit at Long Key, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Credit: Photo by Graziano Propetto

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Habit at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Credit: Photo by Graziano Propetto

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Branch at Waihee, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Flowers at John Prince Park Lake Worth, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK)

Distributional map for Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.
Map for Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. var. artemisiifolia [811]
2) Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. var. elatior (L.) Descourtils [911]
3) Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. var. paniculata (Michx.) Blank. [476]
4) Ambrosia californica Rydb. [158]
5) Ambrosia coronopifolia Torr. & A. Gray [152]
6) Ambrosia glandulosa Scheele [93]
7) Ambrosia psilostachya DC. [1987]
8) Ambrosia salsola (Torr. & A. Gray) Strother & B.G. Baldw. [140]
9) Ambrosia trifida L. [2883]
10) Amelanchier alnifolia (Nutt.) Nutt. ex M. Roem. var. pallida (Greene) Jeps. [156]

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