Artemisia frigida Willd.
 
FamilyCompositae — APG family: Asteraceae
Common nameprairie sagewort
DescriptionFragrant, suffruticose, more or less matted, with several leafy basal branches; leaves silvery-silky, roundish in outline, 2-3 times ternately divided into many linear segments; panicle simple or with erect branches; heads nodding; involucral bracts loosely tomentose; receptacle hairy; achenes glabrous.
EcologyDry, open slopes and rocks in the lowlands, to about 1,000 meters in the moun- tains. Described from Dahuria.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.