''Artemisia chamaemelifolia'' is a European and Middle Eastern species of

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in the

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includes photos and European distribution map

Description

The species flowering stems are in length and are cylindrical, erect, and are dark brown in colour. Leaves are pinnatisect, are green coloured and are either

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or have minimum amount of it. Leaf-lobes are by and are filiform to linear. Its capitula is in diameter and is globose and quite ovate. Flowers are yellow in colour and have glabrous corollas.

Distribution

It is found in

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in western

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on Golyama Mogila and Torlovichka Mogila mountains and in Ostriya Vrah village. It is also native to

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an and

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n mountains such as the

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, and in

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and northern

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Habitat

It can be found growing on grassy and stony landscape, where it reproduces due to its herbaceus nature at the elevation of .

Conservation status

''Artemisia chamaemelifolia'' is considered to be Critically endangered due to low population and specification of habitat.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q13560518 chamaemelifolia Flora of Asia Flora of Europe Plants described in 1779