Artemisia strongylocephala
Pamp. in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital n.s. 33: 176.
1926.
Herbs, perennial; rhizome horizontal; stems purple, 30 - 70 cm high, grooved,
obtusely angled, distinctly long hairy. Leaves pinnatifid; segments dentately lobed; lobes
acuminate, mucronate; rachis narrow, more or less pilose above, tomentose beneath.
Heads peduncled, upper subsessile in lax flowered, moderately leafy panicles with or
without naked, wide spreading, small branches, hemispheric, ca 4 mm in diam.
Involucral bracts purple. Disc florets purple, hermaphrodite; corolla tube small,
glandular, gradually narrow, attenuate.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Panicles widely spreading, branches long; heads evidently peduncled | 28.2. strongylocephala |
| b. Panicles narrowly pyramidal, branches small; heads very frequently subsessile | 28.1. cachemirica |
