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Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. candicans
Photo is of parent taxon

gray mugwort, gray sagewort, silver wormwood, western mugwort, white sagebrush
Stems

30–50(–80) cm, mostly simple, sparsely tomentose.
Leaves

± white;

blades broadly obovate to oblong, 4–10 × 1.5–4 cm, relatively deeply lobed (lobes, lanceolate, 1/3+ blade lengths, acute), faces tomentose (usually less densely adaxially).
Involucres

(broadly campanulate), 4–5 × 4–8 mm.
Florets

pistillate 8–10;

bisexual 20–30;

corollas 1.5–2 mm.
Heads

in racemiform arrays 4–7 × 2–4 cm.

Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. candicans
Phenology Flowering mid–late summer.
Habitat Mountains, usually in loamy soils
Elevation 1800–3000 m (5900–9800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Subspecies candicans is broadly circumscribed in this treatment. Variants within the complex, especially var. latiloba, may merit segregation.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 529.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia > Artemisia ludoviciana
Sibling taxa
A. ludoviciana subsp. albula, A. ludoviciana subsp. incompta, A. ludoviciana subsp. ludoviciana, A. ludoviciana subsp. mexicana, A. ludoviciana subsp. redolens
Synonyms A. candicans, A. gracilenta, A. latiloba, A. ludoviciana var. candicans, A. ludoviciana var. latiloba, A. vulgaris subsp. candicans, A. vulgaris var. candicans
Name authority (Rydberg) D. D. Keck: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 25: 447. (1946)
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