Artemisia vallesiaca, All.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 181

11. A. vallesiaca All. , Auct. Syn. Stirp. Horti Taur. 16 (1773).

Densely grey- to white-tomentose, strongly aromatic perennial with an ascending to vertical, much branched, very stout and woody stock and numerous short non-flowering shoots; flowering stems (10-)20-40(-50) cm, woody below. Lower cauline leaves persistent at anthesis, 3- to 4-pinnatisect, petiolate or subsessile with often large, pinnatisect auricles, the lobes 1-5 x О-3-О-5 mm, linear, subacute to acute; upper leaves sessile, uppermost with pinnatisect lobes basally, seldom entire. Capitula oblong to ellipsoid, subsessile to sessile, erect, in a narrow paniculate inflorescence with erect branches 0-5-6 cm. Involucre 3—4(—5) mm; bracts slightly patent, the outer tomentose, the inner often much longer than the outer, pubescent at least in the upper half, elliptical, with a linear to slightly spathulate midrib region and a glabrous, scarious margin abruptly narrowing towards the base. 2« = 36. Dry, calcareous hillsides (500-1000 m). S. W. Switzerland, S.E. France and N. W. Italy. Ga He It.