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Artemisia scoparia (Waldst S. Kit)

NOMENCLATURE

Artemisia : see A. vulgaris.

scoparia : broom like (used for brooms)

BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

TYPE : like A. campestris, but biennial, with a slender stock, a single flowering stem 30-60cm. LEAVES : 1-2 pinnatisect, segments linear, silver hairy, uppermost leaves linear. FLOWERS : drooping subglobose flower heads, capitula 2mm diam., oblong-globose, nodding in a broad panicle, outer phyllaries glabrous, shiny, herbaceous, ovate, margins narrow, scarious. Inner phyllaries longer, florets yellow or red. Fl. summer-autumn.

DISTRIBUTION : a rare casual. C.& E. Europe. S.W. Asia. Siberia.