Image of little sagebrush

Description:

The finely and deeply lobed leaves of this shrub seem quite distinctive for an Artemisia. This plant will key in tjm2 to arb. long. if flowers per head #is 3 to 6 and involucre 23 mm diam. In the field some heads appeared to have more than 6 flowers. An intersting fact is that there appear to be only a few collections of this taxon from California. One of three in the CA Consortium is from Castle Peak made by Nick Jensen. Troubling is the FNA description 'usually in clay soils; flower- ing early spring' and FNA distribution map indicates no Nevada collections.