General Appearance
Artemisia campestris L., it is a perennial plant 30-80 cm tall, almost woody and prostrate at the base, ascending, glabrous in the adult state, very branched, with spreading branches, not sticky. Cauline leaves bipinnatisect, those of young stems silvery, silky, the lower ones petiolate, the following ones sessile, with very narrow, linear, mucronulate segments. Capilula oblong, ovoid or globose, shortly pedunculate, erect, erecto-patent or recurved. Involucre 1.5-3.5 (-6) mm long, glabrous or hairy. Outer involucral bracts oval, ± entirely herbaceous. Inner involucral bracts oblong, broadly scarious margined. Receptacle glabrous. Florets 8 or more, yellowish or reddish, peripheral florets 3.4 (-5), female, filiform; inner florets functionally male, tubular.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Al-Jafarah Plain:
(25 km) from Al-Assa To Rgadalin, Zuara, (1 km) from Sabrata to Zuara, Gasar-Khiar 1976 Sabrath 2008 Tripoli 2010 Jafara Plain (Wadi Ghado) 2015 El-Zawia 2015 Al-Hdaba Treatment Plant Tripoli 2016 Sabratha 2019 Sabratha region 2020 Coastal of Tripoli 2020 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021
Zliten-Misurata Plain:
Misurata 2006, 2008
Benghazi Plain:
Qaminas area 2006
Jabal Nafusa:
(35 km) after Al-hbielia to Shakshuk, Gassr-Khiar 1976 Gasar Akhiar, Ghanima 2016 Abughilan, Shaffine (Msellata) 2016 Tarhuna (Arabeen, Dawoon, Hejaz, Msaaed,Terghlat) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020
Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:
Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Wadi Zaza 2017
Notes
Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
Link of images: https://eol.org/pages/596480 https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/102.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_campestris
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:309140-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/309140-2, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000068600, https://www.gbif.org/species/3121461, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/135951/artemisia-campestris-l, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332218337521, https://eol.org/pages/596480, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/102.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_campestris,
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