EPPO Global Database

Ambrosia trifida(AMBTR)

Distribution details in Russian Federation (the)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2025: Present, restricted distribution
From NPPO: Present, restricted distribution
Comments
Appears in Russian A2 list of 1999.
As of 2020-01: present in 20 federal subjects (2 707 887 ha).

EPPO Reporting Service (2022/118) : almost absent from agricultural systems but there was some evidence that the species does occasionally enter field margins. Established populations occur mostly between latitudes 50°N and 55°N.

EPPO Reporting Service (2025/255) : appears in the 2024 report of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of the Russian Federation as a quarantine pest of limited distribution in Russia: present in 22 federal subjects (2,448,280.076 ha).
References
* Afonin AN, Baranova OG, Senator SA, Fedorova YA, Abramova LM, Prokhorov VE, Bochko TF, Panasenko NN, Pikalova NA, Vladimirov DR, Grigorjevskaja AYa, Li YS (2022) Distribution and naturalization of Ambrosia trifida (Asteraceae) on the European Territory of Russia. БОТАНИЧЕСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ 107, 350–359.
------- The centers of mass naturalization of A. trifida in the European territory of Russia are the Trans-Volga region (Samara Region and the south of Tatarstan), Cis-Ural region (Orenburg Region, Bashkortostan), Pre-Volga region (west of Saratov Region), Khopyorsko-Buzulukskaya Plain (northwest of Volgograd Region), southwest of the Oka-Don flatlands and the Kalach Upland (center and east of Voronezh Region). Enclaves in the form of naturalized populations were detected in Bryansk and Vladimir Regions, as well as in the cities of Kazan and Ufa.

* Anonymous (2020) Справочник по карантинному фитосанитарному состоянию территорий государств - участников СНГ на 01.01.2020 г. [Handbook of quarantine phytosanitary conditions in the territories of the CIS Member States as of 2020-01-01]. All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center. 92pp. Available at https://vniikr.ru/today/intercoll/inter-coord

* Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (2024) НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ДОКЛАД о карантинном фитосанитарном состоянии территории Российской Федерациив 2024 году [National report on the quarantine status on the territory of the Russian Federation in 2024], 33 pp (in Russian) https://fsvps.gov.ru/files/nacionalnyj-doklad-o-karantinnom-fitosanitarnom-sostojanii-territorii-rossijskoj-federacii-v-2024-godu/
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Belarus Transient view...
China Shandong Present, no details view...
China Hebei Present, no details view...
China Beijing Present, no details view...
China Liaoning Present, no details view...
China Jilin Present, no details view...
China Heilongjiang Present, no details view...
China Hubei Present, no details view...
China Neimenggu Present, no details view...
China Xinjiang Present, restricted distribution view...
China Present, no details view...
China Jiangxi Present, no details view...
China Hunan Present, no details view...
China Zhejiang Present, no details view...
Estonia Transient view...
Georgia Present, restricted distribution view...
Latvia Transient view...
Mongolia Present, no details view...
Norway Transient view...
Poland Transient view...
Ukraine Absent, pest no longer present view...