| Artemisia furcata Bieb. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Artemisia hyperborea Rydb., Artemisia trifurcata Steph. | ||
| Description | Caespitose; stems simple, pubescent above, from taproot and short, woody cau- dex; basal leaves sparsely pubescent above, more so beneath, once to twice pinnati- fid, ultimate sections linear to lanceolate; stem leaves reduced; bracts linear, entire, long, patent; heads globular, 4-6 mm in diameter, nodding, the lower peduncled; involucral bracts broadly ovate, densely pubescent, with conspicuous, brown, scar- ious margin; flowers yellow, glandular-dotted, glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky and sandy slopes. Type locality not given. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Specimens with more dissected leaves having shorter segments belong to var. heterophylla (Bess.) Hult. (A. heterophylla Bess.). |
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.