| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Through most of the state, including the Sandhills, but rare in the Coastal Plain. First collected in 1951 in Polk County.
Native of Eurasia; in N.A. southern Canada south to FL and LA; also some western states. | |
| Abundance | Fairly common to locally common throughout, except rare in the Coastal Plain. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, railroad margins, fields, barnyards, river shores and banks, waste areas, vacant lots, parking lots, campus weed. |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting July-November. | |
| Identification | Mugwort puts out a number of basal leaves in May and June, then sends up flowering stems in June-July. The stems reach 3 feet or more tall. The lower leaves are stalked but leaves become sessile up the stem, gray-green above and pale gray or grayish white beneath, deeply dissected into linear segments. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | | |
| Other Common Name(s) | Common Wormweed | |
| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
| State Status | | |
| US Status | | |
| USACE-agcp | UPL link |
| USACE-emp | UPL link |
