Upper Newport Bay, Nature Ctr. to Jamboree, 7-12-12. © Ron Vanderhoff.

Tarragon
(Dragon's-wort, French tarragon, Russian tarragon, silky wormwood)

Artemisia dracunculus

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Upper Newport Bay, Nature Ctr. to Jamboree, 7-12-12. © Ron Vanderhoff.
Fairview Park, Orange County, CA. 11/16/12. © Peter J. Bryant.
The following from plants at Fairview Park, Orange County, CA. 11/16/12. Photos © Peter J. Bryant. Interpretation by Ron Vanderhoff.
Foliage. Artemisia have all disk florets and no ray florets. The central florets (two of which are open and in focus in this example) are male (staminoid). The edge florets (one of which is clearly visible at the bottom of the image) are female (pistillate).
Female (pistillate, left) and male (staminoid, right) florets. Female (pistillate) florets.

Male (staminoid) floret.
Female (pistillate) floret.