Artemisia borealis Pallas (Q2071)

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Artemisia borealis is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Artemisia subg. Dracunculus
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Artemisia borealis Pallas
Artemisia borealis is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Artemisia subg. Dracunculus

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    Artemisia borealis Pallas
    Artemisia borealis
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    armoise septentrionale (French)
    boreal wormwood (English)
    boreal sagewort (English)
    boreal sage (English)
    armoise boréale (French)
    especially at high elevations and northern latitudes
    Eurasia
    taprooted, caudices branched.
    Stems (1–) 2–5, gray-green, tomentose.
    Leaves persistent, basal rosettes persistent, gray-green to white;
    blades ovate, 2–4 × 0.5–1 cm, 2–3-pinnately or ternately lobed, lobes linear to narrowly oblong, apices acute, faces moderately to densely sericeous.
    Heads (proximal sessile, distal pedunculate) in (leafy) spiciform arrays 4–9 (–12) × (0.5–) 1–5 cm.
    Involucres hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.
    Phyllaries (obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.
    Florets: pistillate 8–10;
    functionally staminate 15–30;
    corollas (or lobes) yellow-orange or deep red, 2.2–3.5.
    Cypselae oblong-lanceoloid, somewhat compressed, 0.4–1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous.