Artemisia redolens A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 21: 393. 1886; A. vulgaris Linnaeus subsp. redolens (A. Gray) H. M. Hall & Clements

Stems 20–80 cm, mostly unbranched, glabrous. Leaves bicolor (white and green); blades lanceolate to ovate, 5–7 × 0.5–1 cm, irregularly pinnatifid; abaxial faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrate (adaxial). Involucres campanulate, 2–3 × 2–3 mm. Heads in paniculiform or racemiform arrays 10–15 × 2–6 cm. Florets: pistillate ca. 10; bisexual 3–8; corollas 2 mm.

Flowering mid–late summer. Rocky loam soils; 100–300 m; Ariz., N.Mex., Tex.; Mexico.