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USDA Plants: ''Artemisia cana'' ssp. ''viscidula''
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Calflora Database: ''Artemisia cana'' (Silver sagebrush)Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of ''Artemisia cana subsp. bolanderi''Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center−NPIN: ''Artemisia cana''Saving The Sagebrush Sea
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''Artemisia cana'' is a species of sagebrush native to western and central
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''Artemisia cana'' generally reaches in height, with examples west of the North America
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, a member of the sunflower family. It is known by many common names, including silver sagebrush, sticky sagebrush, silver wormwood, hoary sagebrush, and dwarf sagebrush.GRIN−National Plant Germplasm System: ''Artemisia cana''/ref>
Distribution
''Artemisia cana'', Silver sagebrush, is an aromaticshrub
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found in grasslands, floodplains and montane forests. ''Artemisia cana'' is native to the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and the American
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states of Alaska, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota.
Description
The type specimen of ''Artemisia cana'' was described informally by its collector,Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with ...
(collected on October 1, 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 :
On these hills many aromatic herbs are seen; resembling in taste, smel html" ;"title="nbsp;''[">nbsp;''[' and appearance, the sage, hyssop">hysop, Artemisia absinthium">wormwood Wormwood may refer to: Biology * Several plants of the genus ''Artemisia'': ** ''Artemisia abrotanum'', southern wormwood ** '' Artemisia absinthium'', common wormwood, grande wormwood or absinthe wormwood ** ''Artemisia annua'', sweet wormwood o ...
Continental Divide
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typically being shorter than those east of the divide.
The leaves
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have a narrow blade shape, are evergreen, grey-green in colour, and have a distinct aroma.
Subspecies
Subspecies include: *''Artemisia cana'' ssp. ''bolanderi'' — Bolander's silver sagebrush, silver sagebrush — mountain meadows and streambanks in eastern California and Oregon, and northwestern Nevada. *''Artemisia cana'' subsp. ''cana'' — plains silver sagebrush, Coaltown sagebrush, silver sagebrush — most of species range. *''Artemisia cana'' ssp. ''viscidula'' — mountain silver sagebrush, Coaltown sagebrush, silver sagebrush — sagebrush lowlands inGreat Basin
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, Colorado Plateau
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, Snake River Plain
image:Snake River view near Twin Falls, Idaho.jpg, The Snake River cutting through the plain leaves many canyons and Canyon#List of gorges, gorges, such as this one near Twin Falls, Idaho
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References
External links
Calflora Database: ''Artemisia cana'' (Silver sagebrush)
{{Taxonbar, from=Q583160 cana Flora of Western Canada Flora of the Western United States Flora of Alaska Flora of California Flora of the Great Basin Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Plants described in 1813 Flora of North Dakota Flora without expected TNC conservation status