Flora of North America species comparison

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Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. mexicana
Photo is of parent taxon

Mexican wormwood
Stems

30–80(–100) cm, widely branched, sparsely hairy or glabrous.
Leaves

strongly bicolor (white and green, or gray-green and green), narrowly lanceolate, 4–10 × 0.5–1 cm, lobed;

faces ± tomentose (abaxial) or glabrescent.
Involucres

(campanulate) 3–4 × 2–3 mm.
Florets

pistillate (5–)8–10;

bisexual (6–)10–20;

corollas ca. 1.5 mm.
Heads

in paniculiform or racemiform arrays 1–8 × 2–5 cm.
2n

= 18, 36.

Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. mexicana
Phenology Flowering late summer–late fall.
Habitat Mountain slopes, rocky soils
Elevation 500–1000 m (1600–3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; NV; OK; TX; Mexico
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. candicans, A. ludoviciana subsp. incompta, A. ludoviciana subsp. ludoviciana, A. ludoviciana subsp. redolens
Synonyms A. mexicana, A. neomexicana, A. revoluta
Name authority (Willdenow ex Sprengel) D. D. Keck: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 25: 452. (1946)
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