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|accepted_name=Artemisia californica
|accepted_authority=Lessing
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=6: 523. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|common_names=California sagebrush
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Artemisia abrotanoides
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
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|name=Artemisia fischeriana
|authority=Besser
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Artemisia foliosa
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Crossostephium californicum
|authority=(Lessing) Rydberg
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae;Artemisia;Artemisia subg. Artemisia;Artemisia californica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Artemisia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Artemisia subg. Artemisia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Artemisia californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 487, 503, 504, 520, 521, 530
|treatment_page=page 524
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> (20–)150–250 cm (rounded), pungently aromatic. <b>Stems</b> relatively numerous, arched, green or brown, branched (slender, wandlike, bases brittle), densely canescent to glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, light green to gray; blades filiform or spatulate to obovate, 3–5(–9) × 0.5–2 cm, sometimes pinnately lobed (lobes filiform, 0.5–1 mm wide), faces sparsely to densely hairy. <b>Heads</b> (nodding at maturity, pedunculate) in paniculiform arrays 6–20 × 1–3 cm (branches erect to broadly spreading). <b>Involucres</b> globose, 2–3(–4) × 2–4(–5) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> broadly ovate, sparsely canescent. <b>Florets</b>: pistillate 6–10; bisexual 18–25; corollas pale yellow, 0.8–1.2 mm, glabrous. <b>Cypselae</b> ellipsoid, 0.5–1.5 mm, resinous (pappi coroniform). <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early–late summer.
|habitat=Coastal scrub, dry foothills
|elevation=0–800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Artemisia californica</i> is the common sagebrush of chaparral in southern California. Its threadlike leaves and green flowering heads distinguish it from any other shrub in California. <i>Artemisia nesiotica</i>, an endemic of the Channel Islands that was initially considered a morphologic variant of <i>A. californica</i>, is distinct in size and form. Systematic placement of the complex may be problematic. The molecular phylogeny of L. E. Watson et al. (2002) suggests an alignment of <i>A. californica</i> within subg. Tridentatae. Based on this finding, a subgeneric realignment of this species may be in order. The odor of <i>A. californica</i> is markedly like that of the culinary mints known as common sage (Salvia species).</p>
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name=Artemisia californica
|authority=Lessing
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Artemisia abrotanoides;Artemisia fischeriana;Artemisia foliosa;Crossostephium californicum
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering early–late summer.
|habitat=Coastal scrub, dry foothills
|elevation=0–800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1831
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Anthemideae
|genus=Artemisia
|subgenus=Artemisia subg. Artemisia
|species=Artemisia californica
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