Flora of North America species comparison

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Artemisia scopulorum

alpine sagebrush, dwarf sagebrush
Habit Perennials, 10–25 cm (cespitose), mildly aromatic (caudices relatively slender).
Stems

gray-green, glabrate.
Leaves

persistent, gray-green;

blades (basal) oblanceolate, 2–7 × 0.1 cm, 2-pinnately lobed (lobes linear or oblanceolate; cauline blades smaller, 1–2-pinnate or entire), faces silky-canescent.
Involucres

broadly globose or subglobose, 4 × 4–7 mm.
Florets

pistillate 6–13;

bisexual 15–30;

corollas 1.5–2.5 mm, hairy (at least on lobes).
Phyllaries

green (margins black or dark brown), densely villous.
Heads

(5–22) in spiciform arrays 5–9 × 1–1.5 cm.
Cypselae

0.8–1 mm, glabrous.
2n

= 18.

Artemisia scopulorum
Phenology Flowering mid–late summer.
Habitat Alpine meadows, protected areas, bases of rocks
Elevation 3100–4200 m (10200–13800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CO; MT; NM; NV; UT; WY
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Source FNA vol. 19, p. 520.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Anthemideae > Artemisia > subg. Absinthium
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. pedatifida, A. pontica, A. porteri, A. pycnocephala, A. pygmaea, A. rigida, A. rothrockii, A. rupestris, A. senjavinensis, A. serrata, A. spiciformis, A. stelleriana, A. suksdorfii, A. tilesii, A. tridentata, A. tripartita, A. vulgaris
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15: 66. (1863)
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