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.
long stemmed, erect shrubby perennials on sandy to silty clayish margin of intermittent ponding playa area divided by highway. Leaves small, to 2 cm. long, canescent, revolute. Plants with Grindelia oxylepis, Conyza coulteri.
voucher #21401 low shrubs to 3 dm tall; an exact match for the holotype (Beetle 12631 RM) in leaf dissection, leaf morphogenesis in inflorescence, stature; not longiloba as not early flowering; not A. tripartita, which has a different inflorescence leaf morphogenesis.