Artemisia lessingiana, 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 : 182

18. A. lessingiana Besser , Linnaea 15: 90 (1841).

Greyishtomentose, soon glabrescent, caespitose perennial with a thick woody stock; flowering stems 15-30(-40) cm, numerous. Leaves mostly sparsely pubescent to glabrous, sometimes greyisharachnoid-tomentose. Lower leaves 1- (to 2-)pinnatisect, longpetiolate, not auriculate, the lobes 5-10 mm, linear to filiform; upper leaves sessile, uppermost with two lobes basally or simple. Capitula narrowly ovoid, sessile to subsessile, erect, in a narrow paniculate or almost racemose inflorescence with erect to erectopatent branches 1—2(—3) cm; outer (female) florets absent. Involucre 3-4 mm; bracts oblong to elliptical, the outer greyishpubescent to tomentose, the inner distinctly longer than the outer, glabrous, broadly scarious. Corolla glabrous. S.E. Russia (Obščij Syrt, S.E. of Kujbyšev). Rs (E). (N.W. Kazakhstan.)