Difference between revisions of "Artemisia nesiotica"
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Latest revision as of 19:57, 5 November 2020
Subshrubs, 10–60 cm (rounded), aromatic. Stems relatively numerous, ascending or prostrate, gray, simple or branched (slender, wandlike, soft, bases woody and brittle), densely canescent. Leaves cauline, gray-green; blades linear-oblong, 3–5 × 1–2 cm, mostly 3-lobed (lobes 1–2 mm wide), faces gray-hairy. Heads (usually erect, sometimes nodding) in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–25 × 3–5(–7) cm. Involucres broadly campanulate, 2.5 × 4–4.5 mm. Phyllaries broadly ovate, densely hairy. Florets: pistillate 0; bisexual 20–50; corollas pale yellow, 1.2–1.5 mm, glandular. Cypselae (light brown) ellipsoid (ribbed), 0.5 mm, resinous.
Phenology: Flowering mid–late summer.
Habitat: Rocky slopes, often fog-shrouded hillsides
Elevation: 0–100 m
Discussion
Artemisia nesiotica is known only from the Channel Islands of California. It differs from the closely related A. californica by its shorter stature, wider leaf lobes, and larger heads.
Selected References
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