Artemisia frigida

Family: Asteraceae
Common Name: prairie sagewort
Symbol: ARFR4
Description: Perennials, 10-40 cm (forming silvery mats or mounds), strongly aromatic. Stems gray-green or brown, glabrescent. Leaves persistent, silver-gray; blades ovate, 0.5-1.5(-2.5) cm, 1-2-ternately lobed (lobes 0.2-0.5 mm wide), faces densely whitish-pubescent. Heads in (leafy) paniculiform arrays 0.5-2(-4) - 4-15(-20) cm. Involucres globose, (3-)5 - (2-)5-6 mm. Fields, meadows, dry grasslands, steppes, usually stony, well-drained soils; 500-3300 m