Tarragon - Artemesia dracunculus sativa

Other Names:
	A. dracunculoides Pursh, A. glauca Pallas {Oligosporus dracunculus}
	French Tarragon, Tarragon, Green Sagewort, False Tarragon, Dragon Sagewort, Terragon, Linear-leaved Wormwood, Silky Wormwood, Wormwood
	Estragon
	Dragon, Drakewortel, Drakenkruid
	Esdragon, Estragon, Fransk esdragon
	Estragon, Französischer, Estragon, franse dragon, duitse dragon
	Estragon
	Rakuuna
	Dragon
	Estragon, Fransk estragon
	Estragonová
	Полынь эстрагон
Gallic	Estragón
	Estragón
	Estragó
	Assenzio dragoncello, Estragone
	Suge-belar
Notes	Do not confuse between this and the other "wormwoods" (A. absinthum, inter alia)!

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Taxonomy: Family: Asteraceae

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Distribution: Temperate Asia, India, Pakistan, West to Belarus. Northern Mexico, Western US & Canada. 

"FEIS:Although primarily a species of the Missouri River drainage, tarragon is considered one of the most common of the herbaceous sagebrush in the western United States [3]. This species is widely distributed from the Yukon, British Columbia, and Washington, south to Baja California, and eastward to Illinois, Texas, and northern Mexico. In the Pacific Northwest, its range is typically east of the Cascade Range [2]."

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Complete ethnobotanical notes and references available on request

Last edited 8 February 2002