Artemisia laciniata, Willd.

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 : 182

19. A. laciniata Willd. , Sp. Pl. 3: 1843 (1803).

Not aromatic, rhizomatous perennial 5-50(-90) cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above. Lower leaves 2-pinnatifid, not auriculate at base, the lobes c. 5 x 1 mm, often deeply toothed, glabrous or sparsely sericeous; petiole long. Upper leaves less divided, shortly petiolate. Capitula broadly campanulate, shortly pedunculate, recurved, in a shortly branched, more or less secund, racemose panicle. Bracts small, pinnatifid or simple, linear. Involucre 2-3 mm; bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous; margin scarious. Receptacle glabrous. Corolla yellow. 2«= 18. Isolated stations in E. Austria, S.E. Czechoslovakia and S.C. Russia. Au Cz |G e Rs (C). (Temperate Asia.)