Artemisia arctica Less.
 
FamilyCompositae — APG family: Asteraceae
SynonymsArtemisia chamissoniana var. kotzebuensis Bess., Artemisia longepedunculata Britt. & Rydb., Artemisia chamissoniana var. unalaschcensis, Artemisia cooleyae Rydb., Artemisia chamissoniana var. saxatilis, Artemisia chamissoniana Bess., Artemisia norvegica var. pacifica Gray, Artemisia norvegica subsp. saxatilis (Bess.) Hall & Clements
DescriptionStems from stout, woody caudex, with short runners and sterile rosettes; basal leaves bipinnately dissected into mostly 5-7 pairs of pinnae, with linear or linear- lanceolate, acute, ultimate lobes; stem leaves reduced, the upper linear; heads nod- ding, the lower long-peduncled; involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate to elliptical with dark-brown, scarious margin; disk flowers yellow, pubescent; achenes glabrous; pappus lacking.
EcologyMeadows, in the mountains to at least 2,000 meters. Described from Unalaska, Cape Espenberg, St. Lawrence Island and Bay, and Kamchatka.
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.