Artemisia splendens

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Tufted or hummock-forming perennial. Flowering stems erect, 10-30 cm, sericeous-pilose. Basal leaves petiolate, up to 2 cm, 2-pinnatisect with oblong to very narrowly elliptic, entire, acute segments, silvery sericeous on both surfaces. Cauline leaves and bracts similar but smaller. Inflorescence a strict, ± secund raceme or very narrow panicle. Capitula erect to somewhat nodding, ± depressed-globose, 5.5-7 mm broad, many-flowered. Receptacle conspicuously pilose. Outer phyllaries ± oblong, with thickened, foliaceous central part and conspicuous dark brown outer scarious part, all tomentose; inner a little longer, mostly scarious. Outer flowers filiform, female, inner hermaphrodite, fertile, corolla reddish, pilose on lobes, inserted ± straight on ovary in flower, becoming some-what oblique after fertilization. Fl. 6-9. Slopes, mountain steppe, 2600-4100 m.

Caucasia, N. Iran, N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element.