Artemisia douglasiana (Mugwort)

3/24/17 Campground before Dripping Springs trailhead, Dripping Springs,

Agua Tibia, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Mugwort

SPECIES: Artemisia douglasiana

FAMILY: Asteraceae (Sunflower Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/24/17

LOCATION: Campground before Dripping Springs trailhead, Dripping Springs, Agua Tibia, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from Jepson eFlora:

Native

Habit: Perennial herb 5--25 dm, from rhizome. 

Stem: many, erect, brown to gray-green, +- tomentose. 

Leaf: evenly spaced, 1--11(15) cm, narrowly elliptic to widely oblanceolate, entire or coarsely 3--5(+)-lobed near tip, +- sparsely tomentose adaxially, densely white-tomentose abaxially. 

Inflorescence: heads disciform, 2--4 mm diam, bell-shaped, erect to +- nodding along branches of leafy-bracted panicle-like clusters; phyllaries +- widely (ob)ovate, gray-tomentose, margins wide, transparent. 

Pistillate Flower: 5--9. 

Disk Flower: 6--25. 

Fruit: 0.8--1 mm, glabrous. 

Ecology: Common. Open to shady areas, often in drainages; 

Elevation: < 2200 m.

Biogregional Distribution: CA-FP, MP, n SNE; 

Distribution Outside California: to Washington, Idaho, Baja California. 

Flowering Time: May--Nov 

Jepson eFlora Author: Leila M. Shultz