SUNFLOWER FAMILY 403 
5692 
5691. Cotula coronopifolia 5692. Cotula australis 
105. ARTEMISIA* L. Sp. Pl. 845. 1753. 
Annual, biennial, and perennial herbs or shrubs, usually aromatic, the roots fibrous, or 
with taproot; perennial herbs often with rootstock or ca dex. Leaves entire to finely 
divided. Inflorescence paniculiform, sometimes reduced and raceme-like or spiciform. 
Phyllaries dry, imbricate, at least the inner ones s arious or with scarious margins. 
Heads small, discoid or hediocs Ray-florets pistillate and fertile or wanting; corolla 
tubular and usually tapered upward with 2, 3, or 4 teeth; style 2-cleft, more or less ex- 
serted, the somewhat flattened branches usually pines and rounded, or truncate and 
entire, or erose at the tip. Disk-florets perfect, fertile or the pistil sometimes sterile by an 
abortive ovary; corolla campanulate or unnelform, regular and 5-toothed; style usually 
eft i 
es elli ngled or 
-ribbed, or with numerous faint striae, usually glabrous or resinous-granu a te rarely 
hairy. Receptacle flat to hemispheric, naked or with many long hairs, with pale in only 
1 species. [Name Greek, from ancient name of mugwort, in memory of Artemisia, Queen 
i solus. 
A circumboreal genus of a species, depending upon interpretation. Type species, Artemisia vulgaris L. 
Pistillate marginal florets present (may be absent in some heads of A. bigelovit). 
Disk-floret te per fees | and robe? 
Pp 
on Abrotanum). 
Plants re spas s a little Actes at the bas 
Plants perennial from rhizome audex, saaitibies taprooted. 
ave: concentrated ecally. pees and r du 
educed upward. 
Pubescence of leaves loosely villous or wanting; "thats — 2-5 dm. high. 
: A. norvegica saxatilis. 
Pubescence of leaves sericeous; plants mostly under 2 (carey - 3) dm. hig 
a hikecta 
or oe chiefly caulin 
L — divided, at least some of them ss some of the —— again 
ooth . A. michauriana 
sy et to bipinnatid with entire lobes, these usually mh broader han above. 
nvolucre higher than broad or height and breadth about eq 
Leaves ng cm. or less in width (rarely to 1.5 cm x agi of lobes when 
present; plants rarely over 1 m. tall. 
Plants Rael rata at base, tending to be ae well-devel- 
indleya 
Plants Herbaceous to a hs never taprooted, fret . reas by creeping 
rhiz 3. A. Indovictan 
Leaves Sym tall - =e cm. exclusive of lobes when scat pet often over 
1 
late, more or less tomentose. 
4. a Sanglaens: 
Invol lindri narrow-ovoid, g 
: 4 suksdorfii. 
Involucre broader than high. as ane unalascheensts. 
* Text it i by George Henry Ward. 
