Artemisia rothrockii A.gray In W.h.brewer & S.Watson

Shrubs, 20–50 cm (sticky-resinous and dark green throughout), pungently aromatic; not root-sprouting (trunks relatively narrow). Stems white (becoming dark gray with age), canescent (bark exfoliating). Leaves persistent, light or dark gray-green; blades long-cuneate to lanceolate, (0.4–)1–1.5(–2) × 0.2–0.4 cm, 3-lobed (lobes to 1/3 blade lengths, rounded, margins sometimes entire, somewhat wavy), faces densely to sparsely canescent, gland-dotted, sticky-resinous. Heads (erect, sessile or pedunculate) in paniculiform arrays, 5–15 × 1–2(–3) cm. Involucres broadly ovoid, 3–5 × 4–6 mm. Phyllaries (usually gray-green) ovate, densely or sparsely canescent. Florets 12–20; corollas 2.5–3.5 mm. Cypselae 0.8–2 mm, (smooth), resinous. 2n = 36, 54, 72.

It is a Mediterranean or tropical plant. It grows in the dry transition zone between mountain meadows and forests. It can grow in wet conditions. In California it grows between 2,000-3,500 m above sea level.