Wildflowers Identified: Tall Wormwood
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Tall Wormwood has these characteristics:
- in a head (7 or more petals): cluster of stalkless (or nearly stalkless) flowers
- cluster or spike of flowers (a spike is a long cluster, with the flowers along the stem)
- 1/8 of an inch or less flower width
- 1/8 to 3/8 inches flower width
- yellow to orange flower color
- brownish or greenish flower color
- blooms in July
- blooms in August
- blooms in September or later
- plant height one foot to two feet
- plant height two feet or more
- alternate leaf arrangement on the stem
- smooth leaf edges
- deeply cut leaf edge
- branched leaf veins
- compound leaves are pinnate - leaflets arranged along a midrib
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Eric Haines,
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