Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. incompta

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Artemisia ludoviciana is a California native perennial found in the Sierra Nevada, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, Great Basin, and desert mountains in shrubland, woodland, and conifer forest at elevations to 3,500 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces small greenish-white flowers in narrow clusters. Growing with upright stems 30 to 60 centimeters tall, it develops a distinctive white-tomentose leaf surface that becomes partially glabrous. Its leaves are complex, with proximal leaves 2 to 8 centimeters long featuring 1 to 2 divisions into lance-linear lobes, and distal leaves that are either entire or divided. The plant forms compact, narrow inflorescences with involucres 2.5 to 4 millimeters long, containing 15 to 30 disk flowers.

Habitat: shrubland, woodland, conifer forest

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: < 3500 m

Bioregions: CaRH, SN, TR, PR, GB, DMtns

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.