Artemisia ludoviciana subsp. incompta (Nutt.) D.D.Keck

Stems 20–50(–80) cm, mostly simple, hairy. Leaves bicolor (white and green, or gray-green and green); blades narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 1.5–11 × 1–1.5 cm, irregularly lobed (lobes usually 1/3+ blade widths), faces hairy (abaxial) or glabrous or glabrescent. Heads in paniculiform arrays (10–)15–25(–35) × (2–)3–8(–10) cm. Involucres (broadly campanulate) 3(–4) × 3–5) mm. Florets: pistillate 5–12; bisexual 6–45; corollas yellow, sometimes red-tinged, 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 36, 54.