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Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. albula
Photo is of parent taxon

white hugwort, white wormwood
Stems

30–80 cm, widely branched, tomentose or glabrous.
Leaves

uniformly whitish green;

blades lance-linear (and entire), or obovate to elliptic (with antrorse teeth or lobes to 1/3 blade lengths, usually 1–2 cm, margins revolute), faces ± tomentose.
Involucres

1–2 × 2–3 mm.
Florets

pistillate 8–11;

bisexual 8–13;

corollas 1–1.5 mm.
Heads

in open, paniculiform arrays (9–)15–40 × (4–)8–30 cm.

Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. albula
Phenology Flowering early summer–fall.
Habitat Desert drainages, sandy soils
Elevation 1500–2000 m (4900–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 528.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia > Artemisia ludoviciana
Sibling taxa
A. ludoviciana subsp. candicans, A. ludoviciana subsp. incompta, A. ludoviciana subsp. ludoviciana, A. ludoviciana subsp. mexicana, A. ludoviciana subsp. redolens
Synonyms A. albula
Name authority (Wooton) D. D. Keck: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 25: 446. (1946)
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