Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis

Family: Asteraceae
Common Name: Wyoming big sagebrush
Symbol: ARTRW8
Description: Shrubs, 30-50(-150) cm (crowns rounded). Vegetative branches (stiffly spreading, often persisting, giving mature plants a twiggy appearance) interspersed among flowering stems. Leaves narrowly to broadly cuneate, (0.4-)0.7-1.1(-2) - (0.1-)0.2-0.3 cm, lobed (lobes rounded). Heads in paniculiform arrays 2-6(-8) - 1-3 cm (often immersed in vegetative branches). Rocky or fine-grained soils, cold-desert basins to high plateaus, foothills; 800-2200 m. Different from subsp. tridetata in its shorter leaves of subsp. wyomingensis, its usually shorter stature, and its shorter flowering branches that are retained.