Artemisia maritima, L.

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

9. A. maritima L. , Sp. Pl. 846 (1753)

(inch A. salina Willd. ).

Grey- to white-tomentose, rarely glabrescent, strongly aromatic perennial with a horizontal to slightly ascending, usually rather slender stock; flowering stems 5-60 cm, often woody below. Lower cauline leaves withering at or soon after anthesis, 2- to 3-pinnatisect, petiolate, often with small entire to moderately segmented auricles, the lobes 3-15 x 0-4-0-9(-l-2) mm, spathulate to linear, subacute to obtuse; upper leaves sessile, the uppermost undivided or with a few lobes basally. Capitula ellipsoid to broadly ovoid, subsessile to shortly pedunculate, nodding or erect. Involucre 3-6 mm; bracts somewhat patent, the outer tomentose, the inner somewhat longer than the outer, pubescent, elliptical, with a usually spathulate midrib region and a glabrous, scarious margin. Coasts of W. & N. Europe, from S. W. France to S.E. Norway and Estonia; inland on saline soils in C. Germany. Be Br Da Ga Ge Hb Ho No Rs (B) Su.