Artemisia scoparia

The broom - mugwort (Artemisia scoparia ) is a plant from the sunflower family ( Asteraceae). It comes from Central Europe to East Asia.

Description

The broom - mugwort grows as an annual or biennial or perennial, herbaceous plant that can reach a growth rate of 40 to 90 ( up to 130 ) centimeters. From a rhizome one or more go to the base woody stems from. The usually hairless stems are purplish - brown colored and richly branched from the foundation. The area in the lower stalk standing, two or three times fiederteiligen leaves have a 1.5 to 4 cm long petiole and a 1.5 to 7 cm long and 1-5 cm wide, oblong- ovate, circular - ovate to elliptic leaf blade. The one or two times fiederteiligen, short -stalked to sessile leaves in the middle and upper stalk area are 1 to 2 centimeters long and 0.5 to 1.5 inches wide, oblong to oblong - ovate or auriculate thready and on the ground. All the leaves are hairy gray to yellowish, but verkahlen with age. They give off a strong odor.

The heyday of the broom - mugwort extends at least in China from July to October. The fruits ripen at the same time. The 20 to 50 centimeters long and 10 to 35 centimeters wide, rispenförmige total inflorescence consists of many small, short -stalked or sessile, oblong- spherical yellow baskets. The envelope is nearly spherical to egg-shaped rare diameter 1-2 mm. Each basket has externally five to seven male and female in the middle of four to ten tubular flowers. The brown achenes are about 0.8 millimeters long and obovate to oblong.

The chromosome number is 16, 18 or 36

Distribution and location

The natural range of the broom - mugwort extends from central Europe through South and Southeast Europe to Thailand, China, Korean Peninsula and Honshu. Other deposits are found in Egypt.

In Austria, the species is particularly rare in the Pannonian area to very rare on dry grass, dry balks, fallow land and waste places of hill height on stage. The deposits extend to the provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Upper Austria, fickle occurrences are known from Styria, Carinthia and Salzburg. The species is regarded in Austria as endangered.

The broom - mugwort grows at least in China at altitudes of 3200 meters. It grows mainly in the plains, on slopes, forest and desert edges along paths and in dry river beds.

System

The first description as Artemisia scoparia was made in 1802 by Franz Adam von Waldstein and Pál Kitaibel. Other synonyms for Artemisia scoparia Waldst. & Kit. Artemisia capillaris are scoparia var ( Waldst. & Kit. ) Pamp. , oligosporus scoparius ( Waldst. & Kit. ) Less. and oligosporus scoparius ( Waldst. & Kit. ) Polyakov.

Use

The edible Broom mugwort is used in traditional Chinese medicine. He has a diuretic and detoxifying effect and should help against earache. The smoke of the burned branches to accelerate the healing of burns. Furthermore, should the type be a good feed for goats and it is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant.

Swell

• Yourun Lin, Christopher J. Humphries, Michael G. Gilbert: Artemisia. In: Wu Zheng -yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (eds.): Flora of China. Volume 20-21: Asteraceae, Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2011, ISBN 978-1-935641-07-0, pp. 730, PDF file online.
• Abdul Ghafoor: Flora of Pakistan 207: Asteraceae (I) - Anthemideae. University of Karachi, Department of Botany, Karachi 2002, p 107, online.