| Artemisia alaskana Rydb. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Artemisia kruhsiana, Artemisia tyrrellii Rydb. | ||
| Description | Stems white-tomentose; stems simple or branched above, from woody, branching caudex with rosettes of leaves; basal leaves pinnate, with 5 divisions, each division cleft into oblong to linear, blunt sections; middle stem leaves twice ternate, the up- per ternate to entire; inflorescence racemiform; heads nodding; outer involucral bracts linear-oblong, the inner oval with scarious, brown, erose margin; corollas yellow, glandular-dotted; achenes glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel bars, rocky ledges, to about 2,000 meters. |
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.