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arctic wormwood

Habit Perennials, 30–90 cm (densely cespitose), mildly aromatic (caudices branched, woody, taprooted).
Stems

1–9, erect, gray-green, lanate.

Leaves

mostly basal (in rosettes, cauline 2–5, scattered on flowering stems);

blades (basal) broadly oblanceolate, 0.5–0.8 × 0.5–0.7 cm, relatively deeply lobed (lobes 3–5, acute; cauline blades 0.5–1 cm, entire or pinnately lobed, lobes 3–5), faces densely tomentose to sericeous (hairs 1–2 mm).

Involucres

turbinate, 3–4 × 3–5 mm.

Florets

pistillate 4–5;

bisexual 3–4;

corollas yellow or tan, 1.5–2, glandular (style branches blunt, not fringed).

Phyllaries

lanceolate or ovate, hairy.

Heads

in corymbiform arrays 0.5–2.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm (subtended by white-sericeous bracts).

Cypselae

(brown) linear-oblong, ca. 2 mm, (apices flat), glabrous.

2n

= 36, 54.

Artemisia senjavinensis

Phenology Flowering mid–late summer.
Habitat Open calcareous gravelly slopes in tundra or heath, sandy slopes above high tide
Elevation 0–600 m (0–2000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; e Asia (Russian Far East, Chukotka)
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Discussion

Artemisia senjavinensis is known only from western Alaska (Seward Peninsula) and the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 532.
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. 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. scopulorum, A. serrata, A. spiciformis, A. stelleriana, A. suksdorfii, A. tilesii, A. tridentata, A. tripartita, A. vulgaris
Synonyms Ajania senjavinensis, A. androsacea
Name authority Besser: Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 3: 35. (1834)
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