Timberline Sagebrush

Artemisia rothrockii A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 618. 1876
Artemisia trifida A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 405, in part. 1876.
A low shrub, 2—4 dm. high; bark Ught-brown; leaves mostly narrowly cuneate and 3-4cleft into oblong lobes, and some of them entire and oblong, 1-2 cm. long, sparinglj* and finely cinereously canescent, often glabrate, more or less %'iscid; heads rather few in an interrupted spike-like inflorescence, 1-3 short-peduncled or subsessile at each intemode; involucre hemispheric-campanulate, about 4 mm. high, 4-5 mm. broad; bracts 10-12, imbricate in 3-4 series, brown, shining, one of the outer bracts often a little foliaceous, abruptly acuminate, the rest ovate, acute, half as long as the innermost; inner bracts elliptic, obtuse, scarious; flowers 10-12; corollas trumpet-shaped, 3 mm. long, 5-toothed, sparingly glandular-granuliferous; style slightly exserted; achenes nearly 2 nun. long.
Type locality: Sierras of Tulare County, California. Distribution: Sierra Nevada, California and Nevada.