Artemisia nitrosa, Weber

13. A. nitrosa Weber View in CoL in Stechm., Artem. 24 (1775).

Greyishtomentose to glabrescent woody perennial with a horizontal to ascending, rather slender stock and few, rather long nonflowering shoots; flowering stems 30-50(-60) cm, rigid, glabrous or nearly so at anthesis. Lower cauline leaves withering at anthesis, 2-pinnatisect, petiolate, the lobes 3-5 mm, narrowly linear, subacute to acute; upper leaves sessile, uppermost undivided, spathulate to linear. Capitula oblong to ellipsoid, subsessile to sessile, often glomerate, erect, in a narrow paniculate inflorescence with erect branches. Involucre 3-4 mm; bracts slightly patent, the outer greyish-tomentose to sparsely pubescent, the inner distinctly longer than the outer, glabrescent,

narrowly elliptical, with a glabrous, scarious margin. Dry, saline or alkaline soils. S.E. Russia, W. Kazakhstan. Rs (E). (C. Asia.)