Artemisia globularia
Artemisia cana
purple wormwood
dwarf sagebrush, hoary sagebrush, silver sagebrush, silver wormwood, sticky sagebrush
1–5, erect, whitish gray, densely tomentose.
light brown to gray-green (woody, somewhat pliable, leafy), persistently canescent to glabrescent.
mostly basal (cauline 1–4), greenish to whitish green;
blades (basal) 1–4.5 × 0.6–1.5 cm, 1–2-ternately to palmately lobed (flowering-stem blades 3-lobed), faces sparsely hairy.
deciduous, whitish gray or green to dark gray-green;
blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5–8 × 0.2–1 cm, usually entire, sometimes irregularly lobed, sparsely to densely hairy.
campanulate or hemispheric, 3.5–6 × 6–11 mm.
(subtended by green, leaflike bracts) narrowly to broadly campanulate, 3–4 × 2–5 mm.
pistillate 9–10;
bisexual 20–30;
corollas yellow or reddish black, 2–3 mm, sometimes glandular.
4–20;
corollas 2–3 mm, resinous (style branches ellipsoid, to 2.3 mm, exsert, gland-dotted).
lanceolate (margins brown), pilose.
ovate or lanceolate (scarious margins nearly invisible), densely canescent.
(2–20, peduncles 0 or to 25 mm) in subcapitate to capitate arrays 2–3 × 2–3 cm.
in (congested, leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–20 × 0.2–7 cm.
oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm, (apices flattened) glabrous.
(light brown) 1–2.3 mm, resinous.
Artemisia globularia
Artemisia cana
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Corollas reddish black; cypselae ca. 2.5 mm, margins with relatively narrow ribs | subsp. globularia |
1. Corollas yellow; cypselae 1.5–2 mm, margins with relatively broad ribs | subsp. lutea |
1. Shrubs 100–150 cm; leaves 2–8 cm (entire); primarily e of continental divide | subsp. cana |
1. Shrubs 50–90 cm; leaves 1.5–4 cm (usually some with irregular lobes); w of continental divide | → 2 |
2. Stems felty-tomentose; leaves green to gray-green; involucres 4–5 mm diam.; California, Nevada, Oregon | subsp. bolanderi |
2. Stems hairy (not felty-tomentose); leaves green to dark green; involucres 2–3(–4) mm diam.; Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming | subsp. viscidula |
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