Artemisia senjavinensis Bess

Artemisia senjavinensis Besser, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc 3: 65. 1834.*
Artemisia glomerata H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 125. 1832. Not A. glomerata Ledeb. 1805. Artemisia androsacea Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 34. 1852.
A cespitose perennial, with a thick caudex, forming dense tufts; stems scapiform, about 1
dm. high, densely silky-hirsute; basal leaves numerous, clustered, cuneate in outline, 3-5-fid,
* Originally published as A. semavinensis, but spelling corrected in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 9: 64. 1836. densely silky-hirsute, about 1 cm. long; lobes oblong, acutish; lower stem-leaves similar but shorter and broader, with ovate lobes, the upper entire; heads few in a dense capitate cluster; involucre hemispheric, 3-4 mm. high, 4-5 mm. broad; bracts about 15, ovate, acutish, in 3 series, with dark-bro^vn or black margins, denselj' hirsute on the back ; ray-flowers 5-8; corollas 3-4toothed, glabrous or sparingly glandular-granuliferous, 2 mm. long; disk-flowers 10-20; corollas trumpet-shaped with a somewhat campanulate throat, glandular-granuliferous, 3 mm. long; achenes 2 mm. long.
Tate locality: Senjavin Sound [eastern Siberia]. DiSTRrBUTiON: Western Alaska and eastern Siberia.