Artemisia minor Jacquem. ex Bess.

Perennial, strongly aromatic, silky-villose, densely tufted alpine herb with numerous, ascending, 8-12 cm long stems from horizontally creeping woody rootstock covered with dry broad leaf bases. Leaves silky-villose all over, sessile or with strong 4-5 mm long petiole; lamina flabellate, 4-6 x 6-8 mm,, bipinnatipartite to -sect into narrowly oblanceolatee, 2-3.5 x 1-1.25 mm, ± obtuse segments. Capitula heterogamous, few, usually 6-9, hemispherical, c. 7-8 mm across, subsessile, secund, remote in a simple raceme. Involucre 3-4-seriate, phyllaries sparsely hairy externally, all with broad, dark brownish-scarious margins, outermost narrowly ovate, c. 3 x 1.5 mm, acute; innermost narrowly obovate, c. 3 x 1.25 mm, obtuse. Receptacle flat, long hairy. Florets numerous, all fertile; marginal florets fewer than disc-florets, with c. 1 mm long, 2-dentate corolla; disc-florets with tubular, glandulose, c. 1.75 mm long, 5-toothed corolla. Cypselas c. 0.8 mm long, with lateral corolla scar, brown, glabrous.

Distribution: Pakistan, India, Sikkim and China (Xizang).

Fl. Per.: June-September.

An alpine aromatic species occurring above 4000 msl in Baltistan, Ladakh and Kashmir in gravel-mixed sandy-clay soils on mountain slopes.

A. sieversiana var. tibetica C.B.Clarke, Comp. Ind. 165. 1876.

Artemisia minor là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được Jacquem. ex Besser mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1836.

垫型蒿（学名：Artemisia minor）为菊科蒿属的植物。分布在克什米尔、伊朗、锡金、巴基斯坦、印度以及中国大陆的甘肃、西藏、新疆、青海等地，生长于海拔3,000米至5,800米的地区，常生长在砾质草地以、山坡、河漫滩、洪积扇、砾石坡地、分水岭、盐湖边、冰渍台、山谷以及路旁等，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。