Artemisia cana subsp. viscidula (Osterh.) Beetle

Shrubs, 50–70(–90) cm. Stems white (sparsely tomentose) or brown (glabrous). Leaves bright to dull green, blades linear to narrowly lanceolate, (1.5–)2–3 × 0.2–0.4 cm, often with irregular lobes, sparsely hairy or glabrescent, viscid. Heads (2–3 per branch, erect, sessile) in (sparsely leafy) arrays 12–20 × 1–2 cm. Involucres narrowly campanulate, 3–4 × 2–3(–4) mm. Phyllaries narrowly lanceolate, acute (outer) or obtuse, sparsely hairy. Florets 4–8. Cypselae 1–2.3 mm. 2n = 18, 36, 72.