Artemisia_carruthii

<i>Artemisia carruthii</i>

Artemisia carruthii

Species of flowering plant

Artemisia carruthii, common name Carruth's sagewort or Carruth wormwood, is a North American species of shrubs in the daisy family native to much of south-central and southwestern United States (Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, northern + western Texas). There are reports of a few naturalized populations in Missouri, the Great Lakes Region, and Rhode Island.[2][3][4] It is also native to the States of Chihuahua and Sonora in northern Mexico.[5]

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Artemisia carruthii is an erect perennial herb up to 70 cm (28 inches) tall. It is faintly aromatic and covered with hairs. Flowers and yellow and nodding (hanging).[5][6] It grows in grasslands as well as open and wooded areas.[5]

Uses

The Zuni people put the seeds on coals and use then as a sweat bath for body pains from a severe cold.[7] The ground seeds are also mixed with water, made into balls, steamed and used for food.[8] These seeds are considered by the Zuni to be one of the most important food plants.[9]

The species is named for American botanist James Harrison Carruth, 1807–1896.

References

  1. [1]
    The Plant List Artemisia carruthii Alph.Wood ex Carruth.
  2. [2]
    USDA
  3. [3]
    Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. [4]
    Go Botany, New England Wildflower Society, Artemisia carruthii Wood ex Carruth Carruth's wormwood description and photos plus New England distribution map
  5. [5]
    "Artemisia carruthii in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  6. [6]
    Carruth James Harrison. 1877. Centennial Catalogue of the Plants of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 5: 51
  7. [7]
    Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 42–43
  8. [8]
    Stevenson p.65
  9. [9]
    Castetter, Edward F. 1935 Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food. University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1–44 (p. 21)


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