Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Artemisia parryi A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 361. 1868
Artemisia saxicola Parryi A. Nelson; Coult. & Nels. Man. 568. 1909.
A perennial, with a cespitose rootstock or caudex; stems glabrous, 2-3 dm. high; leaves obovate in outline, bior tri-pinnatifid into linear divisions, glabrous, 4—10 cm. long; heads many, nodding, in a racemiform or paniculate inflorescence; involucre depressed-hemispheric, 3 mm. high, 5-6 mm. broad; bracts 15-18, in 3 series, the outer somewhat shorter, oblong or elliptic, glabrous, obtuse with brown scarious margins; ray-flowers few; corollas 1.5 mm. long, glandular-granuliferous ; disk-flowers about 30; corollas deeply campanulate, glandulargranuliferous, 2 mm. long; achenes nearly 2 mm. long.
Type locality; Huerfano Mountains, "New Mexico" [Colorado!]. Distribution: Mountains of Colorado (and eastern Utah ?).
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1916. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; TAGETEAE, ANTHEMIDEAE. North American flora. vol 34(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
