| Artemisia rupestris subsp. woedii Neilson | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stems from woody base; sterile shoots strongly branched, densely leafy; flowering stems simple, erect, pubescent, 6-25 cm tall; leaves with linear-lanceolate blunt ultimate segments, the basal leaves two times ternate, the stem leaves pinnate; heads nodding, about 7 mm in diameter, supported by several linear bracts, blunt, broadly scarious-margined with green center; receptable more or less bristly; lowers dotted with glutinose glands; style with stigmas scarcely exceeding anthers. | ||
| Ecology | Scree slopes to about 1400 meters. A. rupestris described from Siberia and the Island of Oeland, Sweden; subsp. Woodii described from Mt. Wallace, in the Yukon. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other subspecies. |
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.