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bursage mugwort, ragweed sagebrush
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Aleutian wormwood
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| Biennials or perennials, 30–100 cm, faintly aromatic (rhizomatous). |
Perennials, 5–10 cm (cespitose), mildly aromatic; caudices branched. |
1–3, erect, reddish brown, simple (leafy), glabrous or glabrate. |
usually 1, reddish brown to gray, tomentose to glabrate. |
basal (in rosettes, petiolate) and cauline, bicolor (white and green); blades ovate, 3–7(–20) × 2–4(–6) cm, 2–3-pinnately-lobed (lobes elliptic, 2–6 mm wide; cauline sessile, smaller), faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous or glabrescent (adaxial), glandular. |
persistent, mostly basal, gray-green; (petioles often expanded) blades (at least proximal) obovate, 1.5–5 × 0.5–1 cm, 2-palmately lobed, lobes relatively narrow, apices acute, faces densely white-villous (brownish in age); cauline smaller, distally 1-ternate. |
broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm. |
hemispheric or globose, (2–)5–7 × (2–)6–8 mm. |
pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm); bisexual 25–35; corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous. |
pistillate 4–6; functionally staminate 15–30; corollas purplish red, 1.5–2 mm, hairy. |
broadly ovate, sparsely hairy. |
villous. |
(nodding, peduncles 0 or 2) in paniculiform to racemiform arrays 10–35 × 2–4 cm (often 1-sided). |
(sessile or peduncles 2–15 mm) in racemiform or spiciform arrays, 1.5–3 × 0.5–1 cm. |
elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous. |
oblong, ca. 1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous. |
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| Flowering late summer–early fall. |
Flowering mid–late summer. |
| Open coniferous forests, mid to upper montane |
Open areas, fellfield tundra |
| 2200–3100 m (7200–10200 ft) |
0–100 m (0–300 ft) |
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AZ; CO; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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Of conservation concern. Artemisia aleutica is known only from the western Aleutian Islands. It is morphologically similar to A. borealis, and the relationships of these species complexes warrant further study. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
| FNA vol. 19, p. 525. |
FNA vol. 19, p. 505. |
| Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia |
Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Drancunculus |
A. abrotanum, A. absinthium, A. alaskana, A. aleutica, A. annua, A. arbuscula, A. biennis, A. bigelovii, A. borealis, A. californica, A. campestris, A. cana, A. carruthii, A. douglasiana, A. dracunculus, A. filifolia, A. frigida, A. furcata, A. globularia, A. glomerata, A. laciniata, A. longifolia, A. ludoviciana, A. michauxiana, A. nesiotica, A. norvegica, A. nova, A. packardiae, A. palmeri, A. papposa, A. pattersonii, A. pedatifida, A. pontica, A. porteri, A. pycnocephala, A. pygmaea, A. rigida, A. rothrockii, A. rupestris, A. scopulorum, A. senjavinensis, A. serrata, A. spiciformis, A. stelleriana, A. suksdorfii, A. tilesii, A. tridentata, A. tripartita, A. vulgaris |
A. abrotanum, A. absinthium, A. alaskana, A. annua, A. arbuscula, A. biennis, A. bigelovii, A. borealis, A. californica, A. campestris, A. cana, A. carruthii, A. douglasiana, A. dracunculus, A. filifolia, A. franserioides, A. frigida, A. furcata, A. globularia, A. glomerata, A. laciniata, A. longifolia, A. ludoviciana, A. michauxiana, A. nesiotica, A. norvegica, A. nova, A. packardiae, A. palmeri, A. papposa, A. pattersonii, A. pedatifida, A. pontica, A. porteri, A. pycnocephala, A. pygmaea, A. rigida, A. rothrockii, A. rupestris, A. scopulorum, A. senjavinensis, A. serrata, A. spiciformis, A. stelleriana, A. suksdorfii, A. tilesii, A. tridentata, A. tripartita, A. vulgaris |
| Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 10: 42. (1883) |
Hultén: Bot. Not. 1939: 829, fig. 2. (1939) |
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