Artemisia minor
Jacq. ex Bess. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 9: 22. 1836; Hook.f.,
Fl. Brit. India 3: 329. 1881.
Herbs, perennial; small, pale green to silky white tomentose, 5 - 10 cm high; branches
often several, spreading from the branched woody rootstock. Cauline leaves 0.5 - 1 cm
long, flabellate, 2-pinnatifid, petioled or sessile; segments small; lower leaves densely
Imbricating, 0.5 - 2 cm long, flabellately 2-pinnatifid, sessile; segments linear, obtuse.
Heads bracteate, shortly peduncled to subsessile upwards, solitary, sometimes crowded
at the ends of branches, spicate, 0.5 - 0.8 cm in diam. Involucral bracts broadly ovate,
White tomentose with broad scarious margins; inner broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate
with more or less hairy scarious margins. Receptacle hairy. Outer florets female, fertile;
narrowly oblong, 1.2 x 0.5 m, corolla obscurely lobed. Disc florets yellow
hermaphrodite, fertile, tubular, 2 x 1 mm, sparsely glandular, narrowed to the base; limb
Purple brown, 5-fid pubescent, acute. Anthers acuminate. Achenes cylindric, 1.2 x 0.8
mm, obscurely ribbed, winged, somewhat auricled at the top.
Fl. & Fr. July - Sept.
Distrib. India: W. Himalayas, on stony slopes and alpine meadows between 4500- 5000 m. Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh) and Sikkim.
Pakistan, Bhutan, W. & E. Tibet and China.
Fl. & Fr. July - Sept.
Distrib. India: W. Himalayas, on stony slopes and alpine meadows between 4500- 5000 m. Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh) and Sikkim.
Pakistan, Bhutan, W. & E. Tibet and China.