Artemisia stellerana, Besser

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 180

7. A. stellerana Besser , Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Moscou 3: 79 (1834).

Densely white-lanate, not aromatic, rhizomatous perennial 30-60 cm. Lower leaves pinnately lobed or deeply toothed, cuneate, petiolate; lobes obtuse; upper leaves sessile, sometimes entire. Capitula broadly campanulate, shortly pedunculate, erect or recurved, crowded in a racemose panicle. Bracts leaf-like, the upper small. Involucre 8-9 mm; bracts oblong to ovate, obtuse; margin scarious. Receptacle glabrous. Corolla yellow. Cultivated for ornament and locally naturalized in N. Europe. [Br Da Su.] (N.E. Asia.)