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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual to shrubs, generally aromatic
Leaves entire to ± lobed, glabrous to densely hairy; hairs glandular (resin-filled) or T-shaped, hollow
Inflorescence: generally panicle; heads generally discoid or disciform, in racemes or panicles; involucre ovoid to hemispheric, generally concealing flowers; phyllaries in several series, margins scarious; receptacle conic, generally naked
Pistillate flowers 0many; corollas generally < 2 mm
Disk flowers 4many, generally forming fruits, sometimes staminate; corollas < 2 mm, pale yellow; anther tips acute to awl-shaped; style branches flat, fringed or blunt (sometimes simple, tack-shaped in staminate flowers)
Fruit < 2 mm, obovoid or fusiform, ribbed or smooth, glabrous, hairy, or resinous; pappus generally 0 or minute crown
Species in genus: ± 300 species: especially n hemisphere
Etymology: (Greek: Artemis, goddess of the hunt, and noted herbalist, Queen of Anatolia)
Reference: [Keck 1946 Proc Calif Acad Sci (4)25:421468; Shultz 1983 PhD thesis Claremont Graduate School]
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Perennial 525 dm, from rhizome
Stems many, erect, brown to gray-green
Leaves evenly spaced, 111(15) cm, narrowly elliptic to widely oblanceolate, entire or coarsely 35-lobed near tip, sparsely tomentose above, densely white-tomentose below
Inflorescence 1030 cm, 39 cm wide, leafy; branches widely spreading; heads 24 mm diam, bell-shaped, generally nodding; phyllaries ± widely (ob)ovate, gray-tomentose, margins wide, transparent
Pistillate flowers 69
Disk flowers 925, staminate
Fruit < 1 mm, glabrous
Chromosomes: 2n=18,36,54
Ecology: Common. Open to shady places, often in drainages
Elevation: < 2200 m.
Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province (except Channel Islands, Peninsular Ranges), n East of Sierra Nevada
Distribution outside California: to Washington, Idaho, Baja California
Flowering time: JunOct
Horticultural information: 4, 5, 6, 17 &IRR: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; may be INV; STBL.