Artemisia: after the Greek goddess Artemis who so benefitted from a plant of this family that she gave it her own name. This was also the old Latin name given to the mugwort or wormwoods. An alternative possibility for the derivation of this name is that it comes from Queen Artemisia of Halicarnassus in Asia Minor (Turkey), sister and wife of King Mausolus, who ruled after his death from 352 to 350 B.C.E. and built during her short reign one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, which she unfortunately did not live to see the completion of. This is one of the many genera which Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus published in his Species Plantarum in 1753 and is in the family Asteraceae.

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Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Afghanistan

Asia-Temperate, Siberia

Asia-Temperate, Middle Asia, Kazakhstan

Asia-Temperate, Middle Asia, Kyrgyzstan

Asia-Temperate, Middle Asia, Tadzhikistan

Asia-Temperate, Mongolia, Mongolia

Asia-Temperate, China

Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, India

Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan

Europe, Eastern Europe, Belarus

Europe, Eastern Europe, Ukraine

Europe, Eastern Europe, Central European Russia

Europe, Eastern Europe, East European Russia

Europe, Eastern Europe, North European Russia

Europe, Eastern Europe, South European Russia

Northern America

Northern America, Mexico