Oldwoman

Artemisia stelleriana Besser, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc 3: 79. 1834.
i4rt«misio cfcinensis Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 521. 1814. Not A. chinensis t,. 1753.
A stout perennial, with a creeping cespitose woody rootstock or decumbent base; stems 3-5 dm. high, densely white-floccose; leaves 3-10 cm. long, short-petioled or subsessile, obovate in outline, white-tomentose on both sides, pinnately lobed; lobes 3-9, elliptic or ovate, obtuse; heads in a dense, narrow, spike-like panicle; involucre hemispheric, 5-6 mm. high and as broad; bracts densely floccose, in 3 series, the outer lanceolate or ovate, acute, fully half as long as the innermost; inner bracts elliptic, acutish; ray-flowers about 10; corollas 2.5 mm. long; disk-flowers 30-40; corollas yellow, 4 mm. long; achenes fully 2 mm. long.
Type i.oc.lity: Port of Petropaulovski, Kamchatka.
Distribution: Sandy shores along the coast from Quebec to New Jersey, and also inland in New York, Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin; escaped from cultivation and naturalized; native of eastern Asia.