FRINGED SAGEBRUSH 



Artemi'sia fri'gida 



B22 

 (2 leaves) 



Flower heads numerous, small, globe- 

 shaped, many-flowered, densely white- 

 hairy, short-stalked or stalkless, nod- 

 ding or drooping, in leafy end clusters 

 (panicles) 



Bracts in a several-rowed series (in- 

 volucre) around flower head, small, 

 densely long-white-hairy; outer bracts 

 leaflike; inner, with transparent-papery 

 margins 



Outer (functionally ray) flowers of 

 heads yellow, 10 to 17, slender-tubu- 

 lar, narrowed above, female, seed- 

 producing 



Inner (disk) flowers of heads yellow, 

 numerous (25 to 50), tubular-funnel- 

 form, perfect, seed-producing 



Leaves small (about ^ to K in. long), 

 crowded, silvery-hairy, divided (twice 

 or thrice pinnatifid) into several linear 

 divisions 



Stems 4 to 24 in. high, round; peren- 

 nial stems woody, spreading and often 

 much-branched at base; annual stems 

 erect, slender, leafy, densely gray- 

 hairy, fragrant 



Taproot deep, perennial, with num- 

 erous, extensive, lateral roots 



Numerous, small, roots produced from 

 spreading stems at points of contact 

 with the soil 



Fringed sagebrush, a half -shrub of the Mayweed tribe (Anthemi- 

 deae) of the huge Composite family (Compositae, or Asteraceae), 

 has a low, perennial, woody base, giving rise to semiherbaceous an- 

 nual stems. It is almost universally known in the Southwest as 

 estafiata and in the plains, prairies, and northeastern region of the 



