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Artemisia norvegica

Fries

Alpine Wormwood

G5Secure Found in 30 roadless areas NatureServe Explorer →
G5SecureGlobal Rank
Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.128005
Element CodePDAST0S130
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVascular Plant
Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
KingdomPlantae
PhylumAnthophyta
ClassDicotyledoneae
OrderAsterales
FamilyAsteraceae
GenusArtemisia
Other Common Names
Armoise de Norvège (FR) Mountain Sagebrush (EN)
Concept Reference
Cronquist, A. 1994. Asterales. In A. Cronquist, A.H. Holmgren, N.H. Holmgren, J.L. Reveal, and P.K. Holmgren. Intermountain flora: Vascular plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. Vol. 5. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx. 496 pp.
Taxonomic Comments
According to the Intermountain Flora (1994), "If the plants here called A. norvegica var. saxatilis were treated as a distinct species, they would take the name A. arctica Less. [A. norvegica] consists mainly or wholly of two well characterized but confluent geographic varieties. North American plants belong to var. saxatilis, which also extends well into Siberia. Variety norvegica [is] of arctic Europe. Possibly one or more additional varieties should be recognized to provide for some of the high-arctic materials." Kartesz (1999) recognizes A. arctica only in North America, with three varieties (var. arctica, var. beringensis, and var. comata); he assigns A. norvegica var. saxatilis material to his A. arctica var. arctica. In Kartesz's (1999) treatment, A. norvegica Fries does not occur within the Synthesis range.
Conservation Status
Rank MethodExpertise without calculation
Review Date2016-02-09
Change Date1988-08-01
Ecology & Habitat
Other Nations (2)
CanadaN5
ProvinceRankNative
Northwest TerritoriesS4Yes
AlbertaS5Yes
Yukon TerritorySNRYes
British ColumbiaS5Yes
United StatesNNR
ProvinceRankNative
CaliforniaSNRYes
WyomingS2Yes
WashingtonSNRYes
UtahSNRYes
Plant Characteristics
Economic Value (Genus)Yes
Roadless Areas (30)
Alaska (24)
AreaForestAcres
Boston BarChugach National Forest53,617
CalderTongass National Forest9,857
ConeTongass National Forest128,454
Douglas IslandTongass National Forest28,065
El CapitanTongass National Forest26,693
Fidalgo-GravinaChugach National Forest257,968
Johnson PassChugach National Forest152,508
Juneau UrbanTongass National Forest101,581
Juneau-Skagway IcefieldTongass National Forest1,187,268
KartaTongass National Forest52,117
Kenai LakeChugach National Forest213,172
Kenai MountainsChugach National Forest306,600
Nellie JuanChugach National Forest713,697
North BaranofTongass National Forest314,089
Port AlexanderTongass National Forest120,681
ResurrectionChugach National Forest224,615
RhineTongass National Forest23,010
Roaded DonutChugach National Forest968
Sitka UrbanTongass National Forest112,003
Soda BayTongass National Forest78,091
SpiresTongass National Forest533,746
Taku-SnettishamTongass National Forest664,928
Twenty MileChugach National Forest198,775
Windham-Port HoughtonTongass National Forest161,952
California (4)
AreaForestAcres
Raymond PeakStanislaus National Forest3,646
RussianKlamath National Forest21,771
SnoozerKlamath National Forest23,414
Tragedy - Elephants BackEldorado National Forest20,866
Washington (2)
AreaForestAcres
Liberty BellOkanogan National Forest108,495
Mt. Baker Noisy - DiobsudMt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest56,039
References (3)
  1. Cronquist, A. 1994. Asterales. In A. Cronquist, A.H. Holmgren, N.H. Holmgren, J.L. Reveal, and P.K. Holmgren. Intermountain flora: Vascular plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. Vol. 5. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx. 496 pp.
  2. Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). 2006a. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 19. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York. xxiv + 579 pp.
  3. Kartesz, J.T. 1999. A synonymized checklist and atlas with biological attributes for the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. First edition. In: Kartesz, J.T., and C.A. Meacham. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, N.C.