Artemisia cana

Artemisia cana

Jesse Russell Ronald Cohn

     

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ISBN: 978-5-5122-9045-3

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Artemisia cana is a species of sagebrush native to western and central North America, having three subspecies. It known by many common names, including silver sagebrush,sticky sagebrush, silver wormwood,hoary sagebrush, and dwarf sagebrush. While these names apply to the species in general, there are others for each subspecies: plains silver sagebrush applies only to the autonymous subspecies Artemisia cana subsp. cana; Bolander silver sagebrush applies to A. c. subsp. bolanderi; and mountain silver sagebrush applies to A. c. subsp. viscidula. The type specimen was described informally by its collector, Meriwether Lewis (collected on October 1st 1804, in the vicinity of Centinel Creek in South Dakota, during the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition), in the following passage from Original Journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Thwaites in 1904 :