Taxon: Artemisia dracunculus L.

Common names:

• French tarragon   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• silky wormwood   (Source: F GPlains ) – English
  
• tarragon   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• dragon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• estragon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Estragon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• estragão   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• dragoncillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• estragón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (a fragrance component fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen [s.], Yakutia-Sakha
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China [n.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir [n.w.]; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri [n.], Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [n. & w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Chihuahua [n.], Coahuila, Sonora, Zacatecas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Veracruz

• widely cultivated

References:

• Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity - on-line resource. (EuroMed Plantbase)
• Bremer, K. & C. J. Humphries. 1993. Generic monograph of the Asteraceae-Anthemideae. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. London, Bot. 23(2):122.
• CONABIO. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad en Mexico. Sistema Integrado de Información Taxonómica (SIIT) - on-line resource. (CONABIO)
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex) [= A. glauca].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
• Hu, S.-Y. 1970. Compositae of China. (Comp China)
• Hultén, O. E. G. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories. (F AlaskaHult)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [with two subspecies].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000. Flora of Siberia (English translation). (F Siberia)
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Ling, Y.-R. 1995. Survey of Artemisia and Seriphidium (Asteraceae-Anthemideae) in the Himalayan Mountains and the South Asian subcontinent. In: Källersjö, M., ed., Compositae newsletter. Columbus, OH [etc.]. (Comp Newsl) 26:57.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains. (Atlas GPlains)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India. (F India)
• Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir. (L Pak)
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri) [= A. glauca].
• Turner, B. L. 1996. The comps of Mexico: a systematic account of the family Asteraceae. Volume 6: Tageteae and Anthemideae. Phytologia Mem. 10:77, 85.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Artemisia dracunculus. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Artemisia glauca Pall. ex Willd.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Artemisia glauca var. dracunculina Fernald
  
• (=) Artemisia redowskyi Ledeb.
  

Check other databases for Artemisia dracunculus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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