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Artemisia

Artemisia
Family: Asteraceae
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Leila M. Shultz in Flora of North America (vol. 19, 20 and 21)
Annuals, biennials, perennials, subshrubs, or shrubs, 3-350 cm (usually, rarely not, aromatic). Stems 1-10+, usually erect, usually branched, glabrous or hairy (hairs basi- or medifixed). Leaves basal or basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades filiform, linear, lanceolate, ovate, elliptic, oblong, oblanceolate, obovate, cuneate, flabellate, or spatulate, usually pinnately and/or palmately lobed, sometimes apically ± 3-lobed or -toothed, or entire, faces glabrous or hairy (hairs multicelled and filled with aromatic terpenoids and/or 1-celled and hollow, dolabriform, T-shaped). Heads usually discoid, sometimes disciform (subradiate in A. bigelovii), in relatively broad, paniculiform arrays, or in relatively narrow, racemiform or spiciform arrays. Involucres campanulate, globose, ovoid, or turbinate, 1.5-8 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 2-20+ in 4-7 series, distinct, (usually green to whitish green, rarely stramineous) ovate to lanceolate, unequal, margins and apices (usually green or white, rarely dark brown or black) ± scarious (abaxial faces glabrous or hairy). Receptacles flat, convex, or conic (glabrous or hairy), epaleate (except paleate in A. palmeri). Ray florets 0 (peripheral pistillate florets in disciform heads usually 1-20, their corollas filiform; corollas of 1-3 pistillate florets in heads of A. bigelovii sometimes ± 2-lobed, weakly raylike). Disc florets 2-20(-30+), bisexual and fertile, or functionally staminate; corollas (glabrous or ± hirtellous) usually pale yellow, rarely red, tubes ± cylindric, throats subglobose or funnelform, lobes 5, ± deltate. Cypselae (brown) fusiform, ribs 0 (and faces finely striate) or 2-5, faces glabrous or hairy (not villous), often gland-dotted (pericarps sometimes with myxogenic cells, without resin sacs; embryo sac development monosporic); pappi usually 0 (coroniform in A. californica and A. papposa, sometimes on outer in A. rothrockii). x = 9.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Heads disciform or discoid, the outer fls in our spp. pistillate and fertile, the central ones perfect or sometimes sterile; invol bracts dry, imbricate, at least the inner scarious or with scarious margins; receptacle flat to convex or hemispheric, naked or beset with long hairs; style-branches flattened, truncate, penicillate; achenes ellipsoid or obovoid to nearly prismatic, scarcely compressed, usually glabrous; pappus none; herbs or shrubs, usually aromatic, with alternate, entire to dissected lvs and few to numerous small, ovoid to campanulate or hemispheric heads in a spiciform, racemiform, or paniculiform infl. 100+, N. Hemisphere and S. Amer.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within checklist: Sage-Grouse Preferred Forbs, NV || << 51 - 100 taxa >>
Artemisia canariensis
Media resource of Artemisia canariensis
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Artemisia capillaris
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Artemisia capitata
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Artemisia carruthii
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Artemisia carvifolia
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Artemisia caucasica
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Artemisia cernua
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Artemisia chamaemelifolia
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Artemisia cina
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Artemisia ciniformis
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Artemisia codonocephala
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Artemisia coloradensis
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Artemisia comata
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Artemisia commutata
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Artemisia compacta
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Artemisia constricta
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Artemisia crithmifolia
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Artemisia cuneata
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Artemisia cuneifolia
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Artemisia dalailamae
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Artemisia deserti
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Artemisia desertorum
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Artemisia discolor
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Artemisia domingensis
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Artemisia douglasiana
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Artemisia dracunculina
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Artemisia dracunculus
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Artemisia dubia
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Artemisia elatior
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Artemisia elegantissima
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Artemisia eriantha
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Artemisia eriopoda
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Artemisia estesii
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Artemisia ferganensis
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Artemisia filifolia
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Artemisia flahaultii
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Artemisia flava
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Artemisia fragrans
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Artemisia franserioides
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Artemisia frigida
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Artemisia fukudo
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Artemisia furcata
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Artemisia gallica
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Artemisia genipi
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Artemisia glacialis
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Artemisia glanduligera
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Artemisia glauca
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Artemisia globularia
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Artemisia glomerata
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Artemisia gmelinii
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