Artemisia cana Pursh (Q2079)

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Artemisia cana is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Artemisia subg. Tridentata
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Artemisia cana Pursh
Artemisia cana is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Artemisia subg. Tridentata

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    Artemisia cana Pursh
    Artemisia cana
    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
    silver wormwood (English)
    hoary wormwood (English)
    silver sagebrush (English)
    silvery sagebrush (English)
    hoary sagebrush (English)
    armoise argentée (French)
    Stems light-brown to gray-green (woody, somewhat pliable, leafy), persistently canescent to glabrescent.
    Leaves deciduous, whitish gray or green to dark gray-green;
    blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5–8 × 0.2–1 cm, usually entire, sometimes irregularly lobed, sparsely to densely hairy.
    Heads in (congested, leafy) paniculiform arrays 10–20 × 0.2–7 cm.
    Involucres (subtended by green, leaflike bracts) narrowly to broadly campanulate, 3–4 × 2–5 mm.
    Phyllaries ovate or lanceolate (scarious margins nearly invisible), densely canescent.
    Florets 4–20;
    corollas 2–3 mm, resinous (style-branches ellipsoid, to 2.3 mm, exsert, gland-dotted).
    Cypselae (light-brown) 1–2.3 mm, resinous.