Artemisia pedemontana, Balbis

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 : 184

40. A. pedemontana Balbis , Horti Acad. Taur. Stirp. 1: 19 (1810)

( A. lanata Willd. , non Lam., A. caucasica auct.,? an Willd., A. assoana Willk. ).

Caespitose, whitish-lanate perennial up to 30 cm; non-flowering shoots often rooting at the nodes. Leaves petiolate, twice 3-fid to pinnatifid, with linear, acute lobes; upper cauline pinnately lobed, subsessile. Capitula 4-6 mm across, hemispherical, strongly recurved when mature, the lower shortly pedunculate, the upper sessile, often in dense groups of 2-5(-9) forming a simple or branched raceme; bracts usually pinnately lobed. Involucral bracts densely villous-lanate, obovate, rarely lanceolate, the inner obtuse, broadly scarious, with a pale brown margin. Receptacle with dense, long hairs. Florets 20-35, the female few; corolla yellowish, densely villous, at least in the upper part. Achenes glabrous. 2/7 = 16. Rocks, up to 1500 m; calcicole. S. Europe, from C. Spain to S.E. Ukraine', very local. Bu Hs It Rm Rs (W, K,? E).

Perhaps conspecific with A. alpina Pallas ex Willd. ( A. caucasica Willd. ), from the Caucasus.