Low Sagebrush

Artemisia arbuscula Xutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 398 1841.
A low shrub, 1-3 dm. high, with stout, often decumbent base and slender branches; leaves short, 1—2 cm. long, canescent, cuneate or flabellate in outline, 3-5-lobed or 3-5-parted at the apex, with spatulate to linear divisions, or those of the inflorescence often entire; heads several in a strict simple racemiform panicle; involucre campanulate, 4-5 mm. high, 3-4 mm. broad; bracts about 10, the outer lanceolate, acute, somewhat herbaceous, half as long as the innermost; inner bracts oblong, obtuse, scarious with green midrib; flowers 7-9; coroUas trumpetshaped, sparingly glandular-granuliferous, 3 mm. long; style included; achenes nearly 2 mm. long.
Type locality: Arid plains of Lewis River (Snake River]. Distribution: Wyoming to Oregon and central California.