Artemisia reptans, C. Sm. ex Link

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

43. A. reptans C. Sm. ex Link in Buch,P/zyy. Beschr. Canar. 148 (1825)

( A. hispanica Lam. , non Weber).

Strongly aromatic small shrub 12-30 cm. Leaves c. 5 mm, simple or palmately 3- to 5-sect, grey-tomentose, fasciculate, sessile, not auriculate at base. Capitula shortly pedunculate, recurved, in a racemose or paniculate inflorescence. Bracts simple, lanceolate, acute, about as long as the capitula. Involucre 1- 5—2 mm; bracts greenish, with a scarious margin, puberulent, obtuse, the outer oblong-lanceolate, the inner obovate. Receptacle glabrous. Corolla yellow, glabrous. S. & S.E. Spain. Hs.

43 appears to differ from 45 only in the larger number of florets, the outer of which are female. This may well be a nutritional effect and the taxonomic separation of the two consequently unjusti­ fied, but further investigation is required.