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Artemisia absinthium L.

Flora Europaea the original Linnean specimen does not resemble quite well the eastern European representatives of the species perennial, Ch-H, 2n=18, 36, 54, diploid, tetraploid, octoploid a common ruderal and in western Europe widely cultivated for the well known 'absinth' beverage Palearctic Onopordetalia, Artemisio-Agropyrion, Artemisio-Tamaricion, Arction, an invader in Festucion rupicolae and others R87 habitats, a frequent opportunistic ruderal invader in others     A very common and characteristic opportunistic ruderal species. west of Hagau, Cluj county, 2nd of October 2009 dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.com