| Artemisia globularia Bess. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Artemisia norvegica globularia (Bess.) Hall & Clements, Ajania globularia (Bess.) Poljak. | ||
| Description | Stems single or several, from short, woody caudex, with rosettes of leaves; basal leaves flabellate, once to twice ternately divided into broadly linear divisions; stem Jeaves 2-3 to several, reduced, the uppermost linear; inflorescence mostly a dark, globular head or sometimes a prolonged raceme; involucral bracts elliptic-oblong with dark, scarious margin and densely pubescent apex; flowers glabrous, purplish- black. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky slopes. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. liitea Hult., with yellow flowers, occurs on Hall Island. |
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.