Povertyweed

Iva axillaris Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 743. 1814
Iva foliolosa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 346. 1840.
Iva axillaris pubescens A. Gray, in Torr. Bot. U. S. Expl. 17: Exp. 350. 1874.
Iva axillaris normalis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 348. 1891.
Iva axillaris brevifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 348. 1891.
Iva axillaris linearifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 348. 1891.
A perennial, with a creeping rootstock, woody only at the base; stems ascending, 3-6 dm. high, striate, strigose or hirsute; branches simple, erect; lower leaves opposite, those of the inflorescence alternate, all subsessile, oblong, elliptic, or obovate, obtuse, entire, indistinctly triple-ribbed, hirsute; heads in leafy racemes, solitary in the axils of the floral leaves, which are similar to and not much smaller than the foliage leaves; involucre hemispheric, about 5 mm. broad; bracts 4 or 5, more or less united into a cup, rounded at the apex; paleae subtending the pistillate flowers oblong-spatulate, the inner ones oblanceolate or narrow with spatulate tips; staminate flowers about 20; corolla funnelform; anthers with acute tips; style short; stigma capitate, penicillate; pistillate flowers 5-8; achenes obovate, somewhat rounded, trigonous, glandular-muriculate. about 3 mm. long.
/. foliolosa Nutt. is a stout form of the Northwest with large heads and less deeply lobed involucre; /. axillaris pubescens A. Gray, is one from San Francisco south, with long loose pubescence.
Type locality: "Upper Louisiana" [North or South Dakota].
Distribution: Saline soil, from Saskatchewan to British Columbia, California, and New Mexico.