CARRUTH'S SAGEWORT
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Artemisia carruthii Alph. Wood ex J. H. Carruth
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| Finney County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 8-24 inches |
| Family: Asteraceae - Sunflower Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August, September |
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| Stems: | | Ascending, simple or branched distally, tomentose. | | Leaves: | | Cauline; blade elliptic in outline, usually pinnatifid with 3-5 lobes, sometimes entire, .2 to 2 inches long, .2 to .8 inch wide, ultimate margins entire, lobes .02 to .07 inch wide, surfaces tomentose. | | Inflorescences: | | Heads discoid, in arrays 4-12 inches. Involucres campanulate, .08 to .12 inch wide. Phyllaries 5-20 in 2-4 series lanceolate, tomentose. | | Flowers: | | Ray florets 0. Disk florets 10-50: peripheral 1-5, pistillate, sterile; central 7-25, bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow, .04 to .08, glandular-pubescent. | | Fruits: | | Achenes fusiform, less than .04 inch; seed 1; pappus absent. | | Habitat: | | Mixed-grass and shortgrass prairies | | Distribution: | | West half of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Uses: | | The Navajo took an infusion of leaves for coughs and fevers and used the seeds for food. | | Comments: | | Herbs, from a woody caudex, usually also rhizomatous.
Artemisia for Artemis, Greek goddess of hunting, wilderness, and wild animals and carruthii, for American botanist James H. Carruth. |
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| Carruth's sagewort |  | | 129 KB | | Finney County, Kansas |
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| | Carruth's sagewort habit |  | | 171 KB | | Finney County, Kansas |
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