Artemisia longifolia |
Artemisia furcata |
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long-leaf sage, longleaf sagebrush, longleaf wormwood |
fork wormwood, three-fork mugwort, three-fork wormwood |
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Habit | Perennials, 20–80 cm (not cespitose), pleasantly aromatic (fibrous-rooted, rootstocks relatively short, horizontal, layered stems sometimes sprouting). | Perennials, 7–35 cm (not cespitose), faintly aromatic (not rhizomatous, taproots stout, caudices simple or branched, branches clothed with persistent leaf bases). |
Stems | 3–20+, erect, gray-green, usually simple, sometimes branched (bases woody), densely tomentose. |
(flowering) 1–5, erect, light brown, simple, strigillose or glabrate. |
Leaves | cauline, bicolor (white and green); blades linear to lanceolate, 3–12 × 1 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes toothed or lobed, faces densely tomentose (abaxial) or glabrate (adaxial). |
basal (in rosettes) and cauline, gray-green; blades oval, 2–10(–12) cm (basal) or 1–1.5 × 0.4–0.6 cm (cauline), 1–3-palmately lobed, faces sparsely to densely strigillose. |
Involucres | campanulate, 4–5 × 4–5 mm. |
broadly campanulate, 3–6 × 4.5–8 mm. |
Florets | pistillate 3–10; bisexual 8–26; corollas pale yellow, 1–2 mm, sparsely glandular. |
pistillate 6–7; bisexual 15–26; corollas mostly yellow, sometimes red-tinged, 1–2 mm, glabrous or glabrate. |
Phyllaries | ovate-lanceolate (margins hyaline), densely to sparsely tomentose. |
(greenish, color often obscured by indument) ovate or lanceolate (margins dark brown), sparsely to densely tomentose. |
Heads | (peduncles 0 or to 2 mm) in mostly racemiform arrays 8–13 × 1–2 cm. |
(erect or spreading, some nodding, peduncles 0 or to 30 mm) in racemiform or spiciform arrays 1–6 × 1–2 cm. |
Cypselae | ellipsoid, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous. |
oblong (ribbed), 1–1.5 mm, glabrous. |
2n | = 36. |
= 18, 36, 72, 90. |
Artemisia longifolia |
Artemisia furcata |
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Phenology | Flowering mid summer–early fall. | Flowering late summer. |
Habitat | Alkaline flats, grasslands, barren areas, high plains | Talus slopes or tundra |
Elevation | 500–1800 m (1600–5900 ft) | 500–2700 m (1600–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
ID; MN; MT; ND; NE; SD; WY; AB; BC; MB; SK
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AK; WA; AB; BC; NT; NU; YT; Asia
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Discussion | Artemisia longifolia appears to be more salt-tolerant than most species of the genus. It is closely related to A. ludoviciana. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Artemisia furcata extends from the islands of the Bering Sea into southern and interior Alaska, parts of Canada (disjunct in British Columbia and the northernmost Rocky Mountains of Alberta), and on Mt. Rainier in Washington. The array of names applied to A. furcata shows the taxonomic confusion arising from a myriad of morphologic variants that may indicate introgression with other species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 527. | FNA vol. 19, p. 525. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia |
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Synonyms | A. ludoviciana var. integrifolia, A. natronensis, A. vulgaris subsp. longifolia, A. vulgaris var. longifolia | A. furcata var. heterophylla, A. hyperborea, A. tacomensis, A. trifurcata |
Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 142. (1818) | M. Bieberstein: Fl. Taur.-Caucas. 3: 567. (1819) |
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