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|accepted_name=Artemisia pycnocephala
|accepted_authority=(Lessing) de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=6: 99. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=Coastal sagewort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Oligosporus pycnocephalus
|authority=Lessing
|rank=species
|publication_title=Linnaea
|publication_place=6: 524. 1831
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Artemisia campestris subsp. pycnocephala
|authority=(Lessing) H. M. Hall & Clements
|rank=subspecies
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae;Artemisia;Artemisia subg. Drancunculus;Artemisia pycnocephala
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Artemisia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Artemisia subg. Drancunculus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Artemisia pycnocephala]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 505
|treatment_page=page 509
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 30–70(–100) cm, faintly aromatic. <b>Stems</b> usually 10+ (rising beyond basal leaves, decumbent), whitish gray, (ca. 5 mm diam., densely leafy) densely hairy. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, gray-green; blades broadly lanceolate, faces woolly-hairy; proximalmost blades 3–8 × 2–6 cm, 2–3-pinnatifid, lobes linear (to 2 mm wide); cauline somewhat reduced, 2–3 × 0.8–1.2 cm; apices acute, faces hairy. <b>Heads</b> (sessile, clustered in glomerules) in (densely leafy) paniculiform to spiciform arrays 10–20(–30) × 1–4 cm. <b>Involucres</b> globose, 3–4.5 × 3–4.5 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> lanceolate, margins obscured by indument, hairs straight. <b>Florets</b>: pistillate 5–20; functionally staminate 12–25; corollas pale yellow (broadly tubular), ca. 2 mm, glabrous. <b>Cypselae</b> ellipsoid (faintly nerved), 1–1.5 mm, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Rocky or sandy soils of coastal beaches
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Calif.
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name=Artemisia pycnocephala
|authority=(Lessing) de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Artemisia campestris subsp. pycnocephala
|basionyms=Oligosporus pycnocephalus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Rocky or sandy soils of coastal beaches
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1838
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae
|genus=Artemisia
|subgenus=Artemisia subg. Drancunculus
|species=Artemisia pycnocephala
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