Artemisia eriantha, Ten.

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

36. A. eriantha Ten. , Sem. 1830 Coll. Horti Bot. Neap. 14 (1831)

( A. petrosa Fritsch ).

Caespitose, sericeous-tomentose perennial up to 25 cm. Basal leaves petiolate, usually 2-ternate, with linear-lanceolate, acute lobes; upper cauline more or less sessile, digitate to pinnatifid, rarely simple. Capitula up to 7mm across, hemispherical, usually in a simple, rather dense raceme, the lower shortly pedunculate, nodding when mature, the upper nearly sessile; lower bracts like the cauline leaves, the upper often simple. Involucral bracts 3-4.5 mm, ovate to oblanceolate, obtuse, largely scarious, the inner with a brown margin. Receptacle glabrous. Florets 25-50; corolla densely hairy, especially above. Achenes hairy. 2/7= 18. Mountain rocks', calcifuge in the west. • Pyrenees, S. W. Alps, C. Appennini, mountains of the Balkan peninsula, Carpathians. Al Bu Cz Ga Gr Hs It Ju Po Rm.