Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 988 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Virginia, Pensylvania."

Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII. The Victorian Naturalist 24(12): 192 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 271 [secondary reference]

common name: Roman Wormwood [n/a] common name: Bitter-weed [n/a] common name: Oxtail [n/a] common name: Hayweed [n/a] common name: Ragweed [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 602 [secondary reference]

common name: Ragweed [n/a]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 873 [secondary reference]

common name: Ragweed [n/a]

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2: 735 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 71 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 163 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 552 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Ragweed [n/a]

Lander, N.S. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 655 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Ragweed [n/a]

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Ambrosia. Flora of New South Wales 3: 268 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Ragweed [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 980, Fig. 200e [secondary reference]

common name: Common Ragweed [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Ambrosia psilostachya DC. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 602

Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Trib. Heliantheae Subtrib. 7. Ambrosiinae. Flora of Australia 37: 560-561, Plate 61, Fig. 83A-F, map [secondary reference]

misapplication: Ambrosia maritima L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora Suppl. 3: 40 misapplication: Ambrosia maritima L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1900), The Queensland Flora 3: 560 common name: Hay-feverweed [n/a] common name: Bitterweed [n/a] common name: Hog-weed [n/a] common name: Annual Ragweed [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Ambrosia maritima L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora Suppl. 3: 40 misapplication: Ambrosia maritima L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1900), The Queensland Flora 3: 560 misapplication: Ambrosia maritima L. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 271

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (formerly naturalised)

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