Artemisia austriaca, Jacq.

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 : 183

31. A. austriaca Jacq. , FI. Austr. 1: 61 (1773).

Rhizomatous perennial, somewhat woody at base. Stems greyish-hairy, often tinged with red, freely branched above, with erecto-patent branches. Leaves 2-pinnatifid, greyish above, white beneath, somewhat sericeous; lobes 5-12 x c. 0-5 mm, linear, obtuse; lower leaves long-petiolate, the petioles auriculate at base; upper leaves sessile. Capitula broadly ovoid, shortly pedunculate, recurved, crowded on the branches of a spreading panicle. Bracts simple or the lower pinnatisect. Involucre c. 2 mm; bracts obtuse, shortly patent-pubescent on the outside, the outer linear, herbaceous, the inner oblong or ovate-oblong, nearly entirely scarious, reddish-grey. Receptacle glabrous. Corolla reddishyellow, with densely patent-pubescent lobes. 2л = 16. E. & E.C. Europe. Au Bu Cz Hu Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, К, E) [Ga Ge].