Artemisia barrelieri, Besser

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

44. A. barrelieri Besser , Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou 9: 87 (1836).

Aromatic woody perennial up to 60 cm, divaricately branched from the base. Branches usually erect. Leaves and stems greytomentose, becoming subglabrous. Lower leaves c. 10 mm, 2- pinnatisect, fleshy, with oblong-spathulate lobes 1-2 mm, longpetiolate, auriculate, usually in fascicles on the flowering stems; uppermost leaves simple, sessile. Capitula ovoid, sessile, erect, in a freely branched panicle. Outer (female) florets absent. Involucre 2*5-3 mm; bracts ovate, brown, arachnoid-tomentose, usually eglandular, the inner with a scarious margin. Receptacle hairy. Corolla glabrous. Dry places. • S. & E. Spain. Hs.