Artemisia frigida, Willd.

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 : 184

41. A. frigida Willd. , Sp. Pl. 3: 1838 (1803).

More or less caespitose, sericeous perennial 5-50 cm. Stems woody below. Leaves 1 - to 2-pinnatisect, sessile or shortly petiolate, the lowest segments distant from the others; lobes 2-5 x 0-5-1 mm, linear, acute; uppermost leaves small, sessile, palmately divided. Capitula hemispherical, patent or nodding, in a usually narrow, paniculate inflorescence. Involucre 3-4 mm, lanate; outer bracts lanceolate, the inner ovate, obtuse or subacute, almost entirely scarious but lanate. Receptacle hairy. Corolla glandular. S.E. & E. Russia, northwards to 59° 30' N. in C. Ural. Rs (C, E).