WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



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996. Linear-leaved Worm- Artemisia dracunculoides Not aromatic, heads nod- 



wood 



997. Desert Wormwood Artemisia Ludoviciana 



998. Parish's Sagebrush Artemisia Parishii 



999. Palmer's Sagebrush Artemisia Palmeri 



ding on distinct pedicels. 

 Sierras and occasional on 

 coast. 



Along streams common east- 

 ern Sierras, strong run- 

 ning rootstocks. 



Distinctly shrubby. Los An- 

 geles County and south. 



San Diego and south. 



1000. Ocean Sagebrush Artemisia pycnocephala 



1001. Button Sagebrush 

 1001a. 



1002. 

 1003. 



1004. Biennial Worm- 

 wood. 



Artemisia spinescens 

 Artemisia Rothrockii 



Artemisia Norwegica 

 Artemisia discolor var. 



Artemisia biennis 



Densely woolly. Sand hills 

 along the coast. Monte- 

 rey and north. 



Very low, spreading and 

 spiny. Madeline Plains, 

 Lassen County, to Mohave 

 Desert. High mountains. 

 Southern California. 



High Sierras. Tahoe region. 



Sierras. Mountains west of 

 Truckee. 



One to four feet tall, with- 

 out odor, leaves divided. 

 Waste places, Berkeley, 

 Los Angeles. Introduced, 

 probably from the north- 

 west, where it is native. 

 Common in vacant city 

 lots in the eastern States. 



GROUNDSEL TRIBE SENECIONEAE 

 1005. Sweet Colt's-foot Petasites palmata 



Peculiar looking plant with 

 its thick, woolly bracted 

 stem bearing whitish or 

 purplish soft heads, the 

 ample radical leaves de- 

 veloping later. Perennial 

 from creeping rootstocks. 

 Shaded woods, Bay re- 

 gion, Marin County and 

 elsewhere. 



TETRADYMIA 



Low, rigid shrubs mostly confined to desert regions. About the size of the 

 sagebrushes and occasional individuals found with them. Gray or green herbage 

 mostly with a woolly covering. A few with rigid curved spines. Leaves linear and 

 entire. Clusters of middle sized heads of yellow flowers. Pappus of numerous 

 soft hair-like bristles. Some of them good forage. 



1006. 



1007. 

 1008. 

 1009. 

 1010. 



Tetradymia spinosa 



Tetradymia canescens var. 

 Tetradymia glabrata 

 Tetradymia stenolepsis 

 Tetradvmia comosa 



Eastern borders of the 

 State throughout its en- 

 tire length. 



All of the southern deserts 

 or eastern Sierra foot- 

 hills. 



