Artemisia franserioides

Greene

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 10: 42. 1883.

Common names: Bursage mugwort
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 525. Mentioned on page 522.

Biennials or perennials, 30–100 cm, faintly aromatic (rhizomatous). Stems 1–3, erect, reddish-brown, simple (leafy), glabrous or glabrate. Leaves basal (in rosettes, petiolate) and cauline, bicolor (white and green); blades ovate, 3–7 (–20) × 2–4 (–6) cm, 2–3-pinnately-lobed (lobes elliptic, 2–6 mm wide; cauline sessile, smaller), faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous or glabrescent (adaxial), glandular. Heads (nodding, peduncles 0 or 2) in paniculiform to racemiform arrays 10–35 × 2–4 cm (often 1-sided). Involucres broadly ovate, 3–5 × 4–5 (–6) mm. Phyllaries broadly ovate, sparsely hairy. Florets: pistillate 4–5 (–13), (1–1.5 mm); bisexual 25–35; corollas yellow, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous. Cypselae elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, glabrous.


Phenology: Flowering late summer–early fall.
Habitat: Open coniferous forests, mid to upper montane
Elevation: 2200–3100 m

Distribution

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Ariz., Colo., N.Mex., Mexico (Chihuahua)

Discussion

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Artemisia franserioides"
not tailed +  and obtuse +
scarious +
spiciform +, racemiform +, paniculiform +  and corymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Leila M. Shultz +
Greene +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
2-3-pinnately-lobed;ovate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Bursage mugwort +
zygomorphic +, actinomorphic +  and (3-)5-merous +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
winged +  and monomorphic +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Ariz. +, Colo. +, N.Mex. +  and Mexico (Chihuahua) +
2200–3100 m +
gland-dotted +
glabrescent +, glabrous +  and tomentose +
peripheral +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Open coniferous forests, mid to upper montane +
paniculiform +  and racemiform +
in subcapitate clusters +  and singly +
indeterminate +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
each +  and sessile +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
deltate +
entire +  and dentate +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Flowering late summer–early fall. +
2 +  and 20 +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
styliferous +, neuter +  and pistillate +
sterile +  and fertile +
conic;convex;conic;convex;flat +
2 +  and 5 +
exalbuminous +
reddish-brown +
glabrate +  and glabrous +
1 +  and 3 +
wand-like +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Artemisia sect. Abrotanum +
Artemisia franserioides +
Artemisia subg. Artemisia +
species +
funnel +  and subglobose +
cylindric +
fibrous-rooted +  and taprooted +
perennial +  and biennial +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +