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Artemisia nesiotica

island sagebrush
Habit Subshrubs, 10–60 cm (rounded), aromatic.
Stems

relatively numerous, ascending or prostrate, gray, simple or branched (slender, wandlike, soft, bases woody and brittle), densely canescent.
Leaves

cauline, gray-green;

blades linear-oblong, 3–5 × 1–2 cm, mostly 3-lobed (lobes 1–2 mm wide), faces gray-hairy.
Involucres

broadly campanulate, 2.5 × 4–4.5 mm.
Florets

pistillate 0;

bisexual 20–50;

corollas pale yellow, 1.2–1.5 mm, glandular.
Phyllaries

broadly ovate, densely hairy.
Heads

(usually erect, sometimes nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–25 × 3–5(–7) cm.
Cypselae

(light brown) ellipsoid (ribbed), 0.5 mm, resinous.

Artemisia nesiotica
Phenology Flowering mid–late summer.
Habitat Rocky slopes, often fog-shrouded hillsides
Elevation 0–100 m (0–300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Artemisia nesiotica is known only from the Channel Islands of California. It differs from the closely related A. californica by its shorter stature, wider leaf lobes, and larger heads.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 530.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia
Sibling taxa
A. abrotanum, A. absinthium, A. alaskana, A. aleutica, A. annua, A. arbuscula, A. biennis, A. bigelovii, A. borealis, A. californica, A. campestris, A. cana, A. carruthii, A. douglasiana, A. dracunculus, A. filifolia, A. franserioides, A. frigida, A. furcata, A. globularia, A. glomerata, A. laciniata, A. longifolia, A. ludoviciana, A. michauxiana, A. norvegica, A. nova, A. packardiae, A. palmeri, A. papposa, A. pattersonii, A. pedatifida, A. pontica, A. porteri, A. pycnocephala, A. pygmaea, A. rigida, A. rothrockii, A. rupestris, A. scopulorum, A. senjavinensis, A. serrata, A. spiciformis, A. stelleriana, A. suksdorfii, A. tilesii, A. tridentata, A. tripartita, A. vulgaris
Synonyms Crossostephium insulare, A. californica var. insularis
Name authority P. H. Raven: Aliso 5: 341. (1963)
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