Artemisia chamaemelifolia
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Artemisia chamaemelifolia is a species of plant in the Asteraceae family that is endemic to Bulgaria where it can be found in western Ponor on Golyama Mogila and Torlovichka Mogila mountains and in Ostriya Vrah village.[1]
Description
The species flowering stems are 30–50 centimetres (12–20 in) in lengh and are cylindrical, erect, and are dark brown in colour. Leaves are pinnatisect, are green coloured and are either hairless or have minimum amount of it. Leaf-lobes are 2–4 millimetres (0.079–0.157 in) by 0.5 millimetres (0.020 in) and are filiform to linear. It capitula is 4–6 millimetres (0.16–0.24 in) in diameter and is globose and quite ovate. Flowers are yellow in colour and have glabrous corollas.[1]
Distribution
It is found in European and Asian mountains such as the Alps, Cantabria, Caucasus, Stara Planina, and in Asia Minor and northern Iran.[1]
Habitat
It can be found growing on grassy and stony landscape only in Ponor province, where it reproduces due to it herbaceus nature on the elevation of 1,560 metres (5,120 ft).[1]
Conservation status
Artemisia chamaemelifolia is considered to be Critically endangered.[1]
References
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