Artemisia tridentata --- Sagebrush --- Asteraceae
Etymology: after Queen "Artemisia" of Halicarnassus + "three-toothed"

A shrub, with canescent, narrowly obtriagular leaves with a distinctive truncate, 3-lobed apex.
In the Great Basin, this is often the dominant plant, of "sagebrush scrub," which occurs sporadically in San Diego County.

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