Ambrosia artemisiifolia

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Ambrosia artemisiifolia
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae
Genus: Ambrosia
Species: A. artemisiifolia
Binomial name
Ambrosia artemisiifolia
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Natural range of Ambrosia artemisiifolia from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Description

Is an annual (Hall 1993).

Common names: Common Ragweed

Synonym names: A. glandulosa Scheele; A. monophylla (Walter) Rydb.

Distribution

Is common nearly throughout entire Florida (Wunderlin and Hansen 2003) and Is also common throughout the entire United States (Hall 2003). It has been found in open pine woods, mixed hardwoods, wet hammocks, and along dried up shores of ponds (FSU Herbarium). It does well in a number of human disturbed areas including old fields, drainage ditches, pastures, roadsides, sandy vacant lots, railroad gravel, blackland prairie soil, camping areas, wet pastures, levees, drainage ditches, along edges of mixed forests, recently disturbed boggy areas, along canals, and agricultural fields (FSU Herbarium). It thrives in dry sandy soils to wet, peaty soils in high intensity light in open areas (FSU Herbarium).

Ecology

Habitat

Is found in disturbed sites (Wunderlin and Hansen 2003).

Phenology

Flowers and fruits from summer to late fall (Wunderlin and Hansen 2003, FSU Herbarium).

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

Can live where winter-burned annually and has been found in firelanes of annually-burned pinelands (FSU Herbarium).

Pollination

Use by animals

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

Hall, David W. Illustrated Plants of Florida and the Coastal Plain: based on the collections of Leland and Lucy Baltzell. 1993. A Maupin House Book. Gainesville. 74. Print.

Wunderlin, Richard P. and Bruce F. Hansen. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida. Second edition. 2003. University Press of Florida: Gainesville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton/Pensacola/Orlando/Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Myers. 296. Print.