Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. mexicana

(Willdenow ex Sprengel) D. D. Keck

Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 25: 452. 1946.

Common names: Mexican wormwood
Basionym: Artemisia mexicana Willdenow ex Sprengel Syst. Veg. 3: 490. 1826
Synonyms: Artemisia neomexicana Greene ex Rydberg Artemisia revoluta Rydberg
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Stems 30–80 (–100) cm, widely branched, sparsely hairy or glabrous. Leaves strongly bicolor (white and green, or gray-green and green), narrowly lanceolate, 4–10 × 0.5–1 cm, lobed; faces ± tomentose (abaxial) or glabrescent. Heads in paniculiform or racemiform arrays 1–8 × 2–5 cm. Involucres (campanulate) 3–4 × 2–3 mm. Florets: pistillate (5–) 8–10; bisexual (6–) 10–20; corollas ca. 1.5 mm. 2n = 18, 36.


Phenology: Flowering late summer–late fall.
Habitat: Mountain slopes, rocky soils
Elevation: 500–1000 m

Distribution

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Ariz., Colo., Nev., N.Mex., Okla., Tex., Mexico

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
not tailed +  and obtuse +
scarious +
congested +  and open +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Leila M. Shultz +
(Willdenow ex Sprengel) D. D. Keck +
decurrent +
Artemisia mexicana +
compound +  and simple +
elliptic +  and linear to broadly +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (11 cm110 mm <br />0.11 m <br />) +
lobed;relatively deeply pinnatifid +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Mexican wormwood +
zygomorphic +, actinomorphic +  and (3-)5-merous +
red-tinged +  and yellow +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
winged +  and monomorphic +
ellipsoid +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Ariz. +, Colo. +, Nev. +, N.Mex. +, Okla. +, Tex. +  and Mexico +
500–1000 m +
gland-dotted +
glabrescent +  and tomentose +
peripheral +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Mountain slopes, rocky soils +
racemiform +  and paniculiform +
in subcapitate clusters +  and singly +
indeterminate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
each +  and sessile +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 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 /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
turbinate;campanulate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
lobed;lanceolate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
deltate +
entire +  and dentate +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Flowering late summer–late fall. +
2 +  and 20 +
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. +
styliferous +, neuter +  and pistillate +
sterile +  and fertile +
conic;convex;conic;convex;flat +
2 +  and 5 +
exalbuminous +
Illustrated +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
gray-green +
glabrous +  and hairy +
relatively few +  and relatively numerous +
wand-like +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Artemisia neomexicana +  and Artemisia revoluta +
Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. mexicana +
Artemisia ludoviciana +
subspecies +
funnel +  and subglobose +
cylindric +
fibrous-rooted +  and taprooted +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +