Taxon: Artemisia dracunculus L.

Common names:

• French tarragon   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• Russian tarragon   (Source: Tarragon ) – English
  
• silky wormwood   (Source: F GPlains ) – English
  
• tarragon   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• wild tarragon   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• dragon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• estragon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Estragon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• taragon   (Source: Pl Names ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• estragão   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• polyn estragon   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• dragoncillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• estragón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• dragon   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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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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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

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
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Veracruz

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Armenia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Norway; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Moldova
  Southeastern Europe: Italy; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Slovakia
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia

• widely cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• 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).
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. [= A. glauca].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Herb Society of America. 2003. Tarragon: an Herb Society of America fact sheet.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hu, S.-Y. 1970. Compositae of China.
• Hultén, O. E. G. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with two subspecies].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• 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.]. 26:57.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of 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.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Artemisia dracunculus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Artemisia dracunculus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Artemisia dracunculus.

Synonyms:

• (=) Artemisia aromatica A. Nelson
  
• (=) Artemisia dracunculina S. Watson
  
• (=) Artemisia dracunculoides Pursh
  
• (=) Artemisia glauca Pall. ex Willd.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Artemisia glauca var. dracunculina (S. Watson) Fernald
  
• (=) Artemisia redowskyi Ledeb.
  

Check other web resources 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
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• 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.

Images:

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

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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