Artemisia norvegica |
Artemisia tripartita |
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alpine sagewort, boreal wormwood, mountain sagewort, Norway sagewort |
cut-leaf sagebrush, three-tip sagebrush |
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Habit | Shrubs, 5–15 or 20–150(–200) cm, aromatic; root-sprouting (caudices with adventitious buds, fibrous rooted). | |||||
Stems | pale gray, glabrous. |
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Leaves | deciduous, gray-green; blades broadly cuneate, 1.5–4 × 0.5–2 cm, deeply 3-lobed (lobes 1–1.4 mm wide, acute; cauline leaves smaller, mostly 3-lobed). |
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Involucres | globose or turbinate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm. |
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Florets | 3–11; corollas 2–2.5 mm, glandular (style branches included). |
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Phyllaries | broadly lanceolate (margins scarious, obscured by indument), canescent. |
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Heads | in paniculiform or spiciform arrays (5–)8–15(–35) × (0.5–)1–5 cm. |
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Cypselae | (columnar, unequally ribbed) 1.8–2.3 mm, glabrous or resinous. |
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Artemisia norvegica |
Artemisia tripartita |
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Distribution |
AK; CA; CO; MT; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; YT; Eurasia
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ID; NV; OR; WA; WY; BC
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 19, p. 530. | FNA vol. 19, p. 518. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Artemisia | Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Tridentatae | ||||
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Synonyms | A. trifida, A. tridentata subsp. trifida, Seriphidium tripartitum | |||||
Name authority | Fries: Novit. Fl. Svec., 56. (1817) | Rydberg: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 432. (1900) | ||||
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