Citation: L., Sp. Pl. edn 2:1188 (1763).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Silver wormwood.

Description:
Shrub to 1.5 m high; stems erect or ascending, densely branched, grey-pubescent, woody below; leaves petiolate, 1- or 2-pinnatisect; segments flat, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, 5-30 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, silvery-tomentose with appressed hairs on both surfaces.

Inflorescence a large loose erect panicle; capitula usually nodding, 5-7 mm diam., dull-yellow; involucre 3-4 mm long; bracts ovate, tomentose, with wide scarious margins; corollas of the bisexual florets cylindric, shortly 5-lobed, glabrous, glandular.

Achenes all similar, compressed-obovoid, greyish.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 673.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EA, YP, SL, KI.   N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to southern Europe. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Uses: Silver wormwood was formerly used as a hedge plant and sometimes persists around derelict buildings, occasionally spreading on roadsides and waste ground.

Taxonomic notes: A. verlotiorum, Chinese wormwood, a perennial herb with leaves dark-green above and tomentose below, is naturalised elsewhere in Australia and may occur in this State.

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