Flora of North America species comparison

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Artemisia pedatifida

birdfoot sagebrush, Matted sagewort
Habit Perennials or subshrubs, 5–15 cm (cespitose), aromatic.
Stems

(5–20), gray-green, glabrescent.
Leaves

persistent, gray-green, mostly basal;

proximal blades reduced, mostly less than 1 cm, lobed or entire;

distal blades 1–2 × 0.5–0.8 cm, 1–2-ternately lobed, lobes 1–2 mm wide, apices acute, faces densely tomentose.
Involucres

globose, 3–4 × 3–4 mm.
Florets

pistillate 4–7; functionally staminate 5–9;

corollas yellow, usually red-tinged, 2–3 mm, glabrous.
Phyllaries

(margins scarious, obscured) white-tomentose.
Heads

(mostly 6–15, 1 or 3–4 on lateral branches; mostly erect, sessile or pedunculate) in racemiform-paniculiform arrays, 5–8 × 0.5–0.8 cm.
Cypselae

(brown) ellipsoid (angled), 0.8–1 mm, (sometimes with white ribs) glabrous.

Artemisia pedatifida
Phenology Flowering early spring–mid summer.
Habitat High plains, grasslands
Elevation 1600–1800 m (5200–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; ID; MT; WY
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Source FNA vol. 19, p. 509.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Drancunculus
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. nesiotica, A. norvegica, A. nova, A. packardiae, A. palmeri, A. papposa, A. pattersonii, 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
Name authority Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 399. (1841)
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