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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Asteraceae
Artemisia stelleriana Besser
beach sage-wort, beach wormwood, dusty-miller sage-wort
Artemisia: referring to the Greek goddess Artemis who so benefited from a plant of this family that she gave it her own name
stelleriana: Georg Wilhelm Steller 1709-1746
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-28" tall forb with no odor, unbranched to the inflorescence; from rhizomes |
| Flower: | inflorescence usually dense, narrow clusters of large heads; blooms May-Sept. |
| Fruit: | top-like, dry seed with a narrow base and rounded top |
| Leaf: | alternate, silvery with a few, rounded lobes  |
| Habitat: | beaches; in sandy soil |
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