Introductory
SPECIES: Artemisia cana ssp. viscidula | Mountain Silver Sagebrush 



ABBREVIATION : 
ARTCANV

SYNONYMS : 
   Artemisia cana var. viscidula Osterhout
   A. argilosa Beetle [43]


SCS PLANT CODE : 
   ARCAV2


COMMON NAMES : 
   mountain silver sagebrush
   silver sagebrush
   coaltown sagebrush


TAXONOMY : 
The fully documented scientific name of mountain silver sagebrush is
Artemisia cana Pursh. ssp. viscidula (Osterhout) Beetle.

The taxonomy presented here follows that of Beetle [2], who
differentiated three subspecies of silver sagebrush based upon
morphological, geographical, and ecological characteristics.  Subspecies
viscidula represents the mountain form of the silver sagebrush complex.

Natural hybrids have been found between this subspecies and tall
threetip sagebrush (A. tripartita ssp. tripartita), mountain big
sagebrush (A. tridentata ssp. tridentata), and basin big sagebrush (A.
tridentata ssp. vaseyana).  It has been hypothesized that subalpine big
sagebrush (A. tridentata ssp. vaseyana var. vaseyana) developed from a
cross between mountain big sagebrush and mountain silver sagebrush
[2,22].


LIFE FORM : 
Shrub

FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS : 
NO-ENTRY


OTHER STATUS : 
NO-ENTRY


COMPILED BY AND DATE : 
N. McMurray, October 1986


LAST REVISED BY AND DATE : 
N. McMurray, September 1988


AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION : 
McMurray, Nancy E. 1986. Artemisia cana ssp. viscidula. In: Remainder of Citation

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