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Artemisia
The Original CA Native Plant Journal
Welcome to Artemisia, the journal of the California Native Plant Society, published twice a year and free to CNPS members. Our current digital issue is now available to the general public. To learn more and to access past issues, please scroll down.
About the Journal's Name
“In any California biome you visit, you’ll find Artemisia. For many of us, its sweet fragrance and soft palette evoke a sense of being home,” said Gordon Leppig, an Artemisia editorial board member and retired senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “We can’t think of a more beautiful way to honor both the past and future of our much-loved journal.”
In 2020, the CNPS board of directors unanimously voted to rename Fremontia in recognition that John C. Frémont, from whom dozens of California plants derive their names, was responsible for the massacres of Native Americans in the Sacramento Valley and Klamath Lake. (Learn more about the board’s decision, and the history that informed it, in the Vol. 48., No. 1 edition of the journal, here, and on the website of the California Native American Heritage Commission, here.)
“History impacts all of us, including the life of organizations,” said CNPS Board President Cris Sarabia. “We can’t rewrite the past, but we can do better, and this is a small but important step to ensuring the California Native Plant Society is welcoming to all people in California and honors the deep connection between native plants and California’s Indigenous people.”
Vol. 51, No. 2
After the Ice
In this issue:
- After the Ice: Plants, Persistence, and Change at the Roof of the Klamath Mountains
- California’s Biodiversity and the Path to 30×30
- The Precarious Future of Baker Cypress
- Pickeringia: Clonality and Fertility
- Book review: California Trees
Recent Issues
Vol. 51, #1
In this issue: Ideas, innovation, and inspiration from 60 years of CNPS. With historic articles by:
- G. Ledyard Stebbins
- Peter Raven
- Marjorie Schmidt
- Rob Sholars
… and others.
Vol. 50, #1
In this issue: Native Plants and Climate Change: Indigenous Perspectives Part II
- Restoring Access and Stewardship to Culturally Significant Landscapes in an Era of Climate Change: Lessons from the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
- Tribal Stewardship for Resilient Forest Socio-Ecosystems
- Caring for Culturally Significant Plants in the Midst of Record-Setting Droughts
- Stewardship Pathways: Advancing Tribal Climate Stewardship of All Ancestral Lands
- In Memoriam: Joan Godsil Stewart
Vol. 49, #2
In this issue: Biocultural Stewardship as Care for Plants, People, and Resilient Futures, What Is, and What Can Be: Traditional Regenerative Horticulture in Syuxtun (Santa Barbara), Climate Change’s Effects on Tribal Cultural Plant Resources, Indigenous Ecologies: Cultivating Fire, Plants, and Climate Futurity
CNPS Scientific Journal Archives
Volume 48
- Vol. 48, #1
In this issue: Recentering Ecological Restoration with Tribal Perspectives, Seed-Based Restoration: Scaling up for the Future, Restoration: Reintroducing Disturbance and Variability, Ethics of Plant Reintroduction in the 21st Century
Volume 47
- Vol. 47, #2
In this issue: Reestablishing Balance Between People, Plants, and Fire in California; Nexus Between Wildfire, Climate Change, and Population Growth in California;Wildfires and Forest Resilience; and CNPS Fellows: Celebrating Those Who Speak for Native Plants - Vol. 47, #1
In this issue: Revisiting California’s Big Trees, Piute Cypress, A Once and Future Forest, and Forest Resilience & Mortality in the Sierra Nevada
- Vol. 47, #2
In this issue: Reestablishing Balance Between People, Plants, and Fire in California; Nexus Between Wildfire, Climate Change, and Population Growth in California;Wildfires and Forest Resilience; and CNPS Fellows: Celebrating Those Who Speak for Native Plants
Volume 46
An exciting issue on urban-wildland interface, sponsored by the Schwemm Family Foundation.
In this issue: Beyond Plants: Wetlands for Wildlife, Paleobotany of Coastal Californian Wetlandscape, Vernal Pools: Biodiversity, Biogeography, Threats, and Conservation.
Volume 45
Enjoy this issue’s deep dive into lichens and bryophytes. Plus bigcone Douglas-fir and Tejon Ranch revisited.
- Vol. 45 No. 1& 2
- Vol. 45 No.3
Volume 44
Volume 43
Volume 42
Volume 38
Volume 36
Volume 35
Volume 34
Volume 33
Volume 32
Volume 31
Volume 30
Volume 29
Older Archive
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Artemisia articles you can read today
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Life After Ice: Vegetation Response to Glacier Retreat in the Trinity Alps
How the retreat of the last glacier in California’s Klamath Mountains is reshaping subalpine landscapes and offering unique insights. -
California’s 30 x 30 Initiative at its Midpoint
The year 2025 marked the halfway point in the decade for achieving California’s 30x30 objectives—a natural moment to assess progress and recalibrate strategies.