Artemisia lerchiana, Weber

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 : 181

12. A. lerchiana Weber in Stechm., Artem. 24 (1775).

Like 11 but glabrescent and the leaves withering at anthesis; leaf-lobes often longer and narrower, 2-6 x 0-2-0-4(-0- 5) mm; branches often longer, sometimes erecto-patent, with patent to nodding capitula; involucral bracts oblong to narrowly elliptical, with narrowly linear midrib. Seashores and dry saline or alkaline soils. S.E. Europe, from E. Bulgaria to W. Kazakhstan. Bu Rm Rs (K, E).

A. dzevanovskyi Leonova in Wulf, FI. Kryma 3(3): 222 (1969), described as nearly related to 12 but distinguished by its denser and more persistent foliage and pubescence, taller stature, wider leaf-lobes and larger capitula, is endemic to Krym, on calcareous cliffs near the sea. It is perhaps only a subspecies of 12.