Sagebrush

Sagebrush, is the common name for Artemisia tridentata and a number of other species of shrubby plants in the genus Artemisia, native to the North American west. It is sometimes confused with Sage plants (Salvia).

Other common plant names in Artemisia include Tarragon (A. dracunculus), mugworts, sageworts, wormwoods, and Santonica (A. cina).

For a more comprehensive list of all types (mugworts, wormwoods, etc.) Artemisia species see the selected species section for Artemisia.

The following is an alphabetical list of different sagebrush plant's common names, along with their corresponding scientific name (Note: many sagebrush species are known by more than one common name):

• Alpine sagebrush - Artemisia scopulorum

• Big sagebrush - Artemisia tridentata

• Bigelow sagebrush - Artemisia bigelovii

• Birdfoot sagebrush - Artemisia pedatifida

• Black sagebrush (see Big sagebrush)

• Blue sagebrush (see Big sagebrush)

• Boreal sagebrush - Artemisia arctica

• California sagebrush - Artemisia californica

• Carruth's sagebrush - Artemisia carruthii

• Coastal sagebrush (see California sagebrush)

• Common sagebrush (see Big sagebrush)

• Dwarf sagebrush (see Alpine sagebrush)

• Fringed sagebrush - Artemisia frigida

• Gray sagewort - Artemisia ludoviciana

• Island sagebrush - Artemisia nesiotica

• Little sagebrush - Artemisia arbuscula

• Low sagebrush (see Little sagebrush)

• Michaux sagebrush - Artemisia michauxiana

• Owyhee sage - Artemisia papposa

• Owyhee sagebrush (see Owyhee sage)

• Packard's wormwood - Artemisia packardiae

• Prairie sage (see Gray sagewort)

• Ragweed sagebrush - Artemisia franseriodes

• Sagebrush (see Big sagebrush)

• Sand sagebrush - Artemisia filifolia

• Scabland sagebrush - Artemisia rigida

• Silver sagebrush - Artemisia cana

• Succor Creek sagebrush (see Packard's wormwood)

• Threetip sagebrush - Artemisia tripartita

• Timberline sagebrush - Artemisia rothrockii

• White sagebrush (see Gray sagewort)