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Artemisia scopulorum
Gray
Family:
Asteraceae
Alpine Sagebrush
Greg Goodwin
FNA
Resources
Leila M. Shultz in Flora of North America (vol. 19, 20 and 21)
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.
Heads
(5-22) in spiciform arrays 5-9 × 1-1.5 cm.
Involucres
broadly globose or subglobose, 4 × 4-7 mm.
Phyllaries
green (margins black or dark brown), densely villous.
Florets:
pistillate 6-13; bisexual 15-30; corollas 1.5-2.5 mm, hairy (at least on lobes).
Cypselae
0.8-1 mm, glabrous.
2
n
= 18. Flowering mid-late summer. Alpine meadows, protected areas, bases of rocks; 3100-4200 m; Colo., Mont., Nev., N.Mex., Utah, Wyo.
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