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bursage mugwort, ragweed sagebrush
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island sagebrush
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| Biennials or perennials, 30–100 cm, faintly aromatic (rhizomatous). |
Subshrubs, 10–60 cm (rounded), aromatic. |
1–3, erect, reddish brown, simple (leafy), glabrous or glabrate. |
relatively numerous, ascending or prostrate, gray, simple or branched (slender, wandlike, soft, bases woody and brittle), densely canescent. |
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. |
cauline, gray-green; blades linear-oblong, 3–5 × 1–2 cm, mostly 3-lobed (lobes 1–2 mm wide), faces gray-hairy. |
broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5(–6) mm. |
broadly campanulate, 2.5 × 4–4.5 mm. |
pistillate 4–5(–13), (1–1.5 mm); bisexual 25–35; corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous. |
pistillate 0; bisexual 20–50; corollas pale yellow, 1.2–1.5 mm, glandular. |
broadly ovate, sparsely hairy. |
broadly ovate, densely hairy. |
(nodding, peduncles 0 or 2) in paniculiform to racemiform arrays 10–35 × 2–4 cm (often 1-sided). |
(usually erect, sometimes nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–25 × 3–5(–7) cm. |
elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous. |
(light brown) ellipsoid (ribbed), 0.5 mm, resinous. |
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| Flowering late summer–early fall. |
Flowering mid–late summer. |
| Open coniferous forests, mid to upper montane |
Rocky slopes, often fog-shrouded hillsides |
| 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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CA
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Artemisia nesiotica is known only from the Channel Islands of California. It differs from the closely related A. californica by its shorter stature, wider leaf lobes, and larger heads. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
| FNA vol. 19, p. 525. |
FNA vol. 19, p. 530. |
| Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia |
Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia |
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. 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. franserioides, A. frigida, A. furcata, A. globularia, A. glomerata, A. laciniata, A. longifolia, A. ludoviciana, A. michauxiana, 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 |
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Crossostephium insulare, A. californica var. insularis |
| Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 10: 42. (1883) |
P. H. Raven: Aliso 5: 341. (1963) |
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