Artemisia tridentata Nutt.
Sagebrush
Asteraceae
Protologue: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., ser. 2, 7: 398 (1841)
Pronunciation: Ar-te-mí-si-a tri-den-tà-ta
Etymology: referring to the Greek goddess Artemis + three-toothed
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A shrub, with canescent, narrowly obtriagular leaves with a distinctive truncate, 3-lobed apex.
In the Great Basin, this is often the dominant plant, of "sagebrush scrub," which occurs sporadically in San Diego County.
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