Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Artemisia furcata M.Bieb. trib. Anthemideae |
Bibliography | Fl. Taur.-Caucas. 3: 567 (1819) |
Native Range | Subarctic to nw. USA |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 500-2700m |
Description | grey sericeous, basal leaves crowded, persistent, ternate or palmatipartite, segments narrow, acute, again pinnate, capitula few, densely lanate, in spike |
Size | 5-30cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer, autumn |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 13-16°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Ajania furcata (M.Bieb.) Poljakov Artemisia furcata var. pedunculosa (Koidz.) Toyok. Artemisia furcata ssp. tacomensis (Rydb.) Hultén Artemisia glomerata var. pedunculosa Koidz. Artemisia heterophylla Besser Artemisia hyperborea Rydb. Artemisia norvegica ssp. heterophylla (Besser) H.M.Hall & Clem. Artemisia tacomensis Rydb. Artemisia trifurcata Stephan ex Spreng. Artemisia trifurcata var. pedunculosa (Koidz.) Kitam. Artemisia trifurcata ssp. tacomensis (Rydb.) Hultén Artemisia trifurcata var. tacomensis (Rydb.) T.Shimizu Artemisia yezoensis Tatew. & Kitam. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan, PRM Primorye) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (WAS Washington) |