NATIVE RANGE: North America

FIRST FINDING IN SLOVENIA: 1950

PATHWAYS: transported with agricultural plants and seeds with bird food seed mixtures.

POSSIBLE TO FIND: April – November

FLOWERING SEASON: July – October

HABITAT: especially ruderal sites, roadsides, fields and edges of fields. Locally also in sunny parts of lowland forests. 

STATUS IN SLOVENIA: Common and widespread in lowland and hilly parts of Slovenia. Also found near bird feeding tables in gardens. 

SIMILAR SPECIES: Common mugwort Artemisia vulgaris (native),  perennial ragweed, Ambrosia psilostachya (alien).

Source: Terenski priročnik za prepoznavanje tujerodnih vrst v gozdovih (Fieldguide for the identification of alien species in forests)