Artemisia michauxiana |
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lemon sagewort, Michaux' wormwood, Michaux's mugwort, Michaux's wormwood |
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Habit | Perennials, 30–100 cm, strongly aromatic (lemon-scented; rhizomatous). |
Stems | relatively many, erect, green, simple, glabrous. |
Leaves | cauline, green; blades broadly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5–11 × 1–1.5 cm, 2-pinnately lobed, (ultimate lobes toothed), faces white-tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous (adaxial), yellow-gland-dotted. |
Involucres | campanulate, 3(–4) × 2–5.5 mm. |
Florets | pistillate 9–12; bisexual 15–35; corollas yellow, 1–1.5 mm, glandular. |
Phyllaries | (yellow-green, rarely purplish) broadly ovate, glabrous or sparsely hairy, yellow-gland-dotted. |
Heads | (erect to nodding, peduncles 0 or to 10 mm) in paniculiform to spiciform arrays 8–15 × 1–1.5 cm. |
Cypselae | (yellow to light brown) ellipsoid, ca. 0.5 mm, glabrous or glandular. |
2n | = 18, 36. |
Artemisia michauxiana |
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Phenology | Flowering mid summer–early fall. |
Habitat | Talus slopes, alpine and subalpine drainages |
Elevation | 1900–3700 m (6200–12100 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; YT
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Discussion | Members of the Artemisia ludoviciana complex with deeply lobed leaves are sometimes confused with A. michauxiana, and there is evidence that plants hybridize in some locations. Artemisia michauxiana is distinguished by its glabrous, bright green to yellow-green foliage and lemony-sweet fragrance. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 530. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia |
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Synonyms | A. discolor, A. vulgaris subsp. michauxiana |
Name authority | Besser: in W. J. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 324. (1833) |
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