Artemisia senjavinensis |
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arctic wormwood |
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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 |
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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 |
AK; e Asia (Russian Far East, Chukotka) |
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. |
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Synonyms | Ajania senjavinensis, A. androsacea |
Name authority | Besser: Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 3: 35. (1834) |
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