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Artemisia campestris L.

Flora Europaea the original Linnean specimen perennial, H, 2n=18,36, diploid, tetraploid xeric to mesoxeric, from the steppe up to the lower nemoral belt this species is favored by the ruderalization of the grasslands through overgrazing and thus increases in number in such situations and looks very much like a ruderal invader; in many occasions it remains in place after the genuine grasslands are replaced by ruderal associations (especially Dauco-Melilotion, Onopordion)and thus it looks like a ruderal; in fact, it is originally a genuine representative of the xeric and mesoxeric steppe grasslands Festucion rupicolae, Stipio pulcherrimae-Festucetalia pallentis, Corynephoretea, Festucion vaginatae R34 habitats and in R87s which actually have replaced xeric or mesoxeric grasslands       A steppe species which can adapt very well to ruderalization, without becoming a ruderal invader itself. The so called subspecies lednicensis (Rochel) Lemke et Rothm. (A. inodora Bieb.) is merely a hairy variety of this species . west of Hagau, Cluj county, 2nd of October 2009 dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.com