Fivefinger chickensage, cinquefoil false sagebrush

Artemisia potentilloides A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 551. 1866; Tanacetum potentilloides (A. Gray) A. Gray; Vesicarpa potentilloides (A. Gray) Rydberg

Perennials, 3–30 cm. Stems lax. Leaves basal and cauline; basal (20–70 mm) 2-pinnately lobed (ultimate lobes linear to filiform, ca. 1 mm wide); cauline (5–18 mm) usually pinnately lobed, faces silky-tomentose. Heads 2–20 in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays or borne singly. Involucres 2.3–5.2 mm. Phyllaries 8–10, hairy. ( Receptacles villous, hairs white, curly, 0.5–1 mm.) Cypselae 0.8–1.5 mm (faces obscurely nerved, becoming mucilaginous when wet).

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora): w United States.