| Artemisia lagocephala (Bess.) DC. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Absinthium lagocephalum Bess. | ||
| Description | White-tomentose; stems several, simple or branched above, from woody, branch- ing caudex with rosettes of entire, lanceolate leaves; basal stem leaves short-petio- lated, 3-toothed to lobed, green and sparsely pubescent above, white-tomentose beneath; inflorescence racemiform; heads nodding; involucral bracts oblong-lanceo- late, with broad, erose, brown, scarious margin; marginal flowers pistillate, disk flowers bisexual, glandular-dotted. | ||
| Ecology | Rocks and rocky slopes. Described from eastern Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. Kruhsiana (Bess.) Glehn (A. Kruhsiana Bess.) has deeper-lobed basal leaves. |
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.