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tarragon
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tarragon

Artemisia glauca

Artemisia glauca is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native from eastern Europe to Mongolia and Western Himalaya. It was first described in 1831. Some sources regard it as the subspecies glauca of Artemisia dracunculus.

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

tarragon in Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.442

tarragon in Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter

Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.765

tarragon in Six Groups of the History of Plants

Six Groups of the History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.718

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In the stacks

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1456794.