| Artemisia michauxiana Bess. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stems several, from woody caudex; leaves small, mostly cauline, tomentose be- neath; the lower 2-5 cm long, bipinnatifid, the ultimate segments often toothed; upper leaves reduced, the uppermost linear; involucral bracts glabrous or nearly so; marginal flowers pistillate, disk flowers bisexual; receptacle glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky slopes. Described from the Rocky Mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Forms hybrid swarms with A. ludoviciana (no. 5, above). |
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.