مینا ربیعی - Payam-e Noor University and Research Institute of Forests & Rangelands E-mail: minarabie@yahoo.com
عادل جلیلی - Payam-e Noor University and Research Institute of Forests & Rangelands
یونس عصری - Payam-e Noor University and Research Institute of Forests & Rangelands
بهنام حمزه ای - Payam-e Noor University and Research Institute of Forests & Rangelands

Thirty-four populations of Artemisia sieberi from ۱۰ provinces of Iran were investigated with respect to quantitative characteristics of leaves and seeds. In each habitat, five plants were randomly selected and some branches were harvested for studying leaf characteristics in spring and seed characteristic in autumn. Principle features of climate and soil were studied in each habitat. In order to grouping populations cluster analysis was carried out with Complete Method and Euclidian distance in Minitab software. Climate, altitude and soil features were compared by variance analysis among groups.

Artemisia sieberi steppe, Morphological characters, cluster analysis, plasticity, Iran