Seriphidium tauricum (Willd.) Poljakov

Artemisia graveolens Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 296. 1897
Artemisia subglabra A. Nelson, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 36. 1900.
A perennial, with a cespitose caudex or rootstock, sometimes suffruticose at the base;
stems simple, 2-5 dm. high, striate, glabrous; leaves mostly bipinnatifid, with spreading,
narrow, often toothed divisions, revolute-margined, glabrous on both sides or slightly and
finely tomentulose beneath; heads numerous in a narrow spike-like panicle, nodding at least
when young; involucre hemispheric, 3.5-4 mm. high, 4-6 mm. broad; bracts 10-12, in 3 series,
glabrous, yellowish, the outer ovate, much shorter than the innermost; inner bracts oval,
obtuse or acutish; ray-flowers about 10; corollas 1.5 mm. long; disk-flowers 20-50; corollas
2 mm. long; achenes fully 1 mm. long.
Type locality: Long Baldy, Little Belt Mountains, Montana.
Distribution: Alberta and British Columbia to Oregon, Nevada, and Wyoming.