Chinese Mugwort
Chinese mugwort is a common name for several plants and may refer to: *''Artemisia argyi ''Artemisia argyi'', commonly known as silvery wormwood or Chinese mugwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant with a creeping rhizome. It is native to China, Korea, Mongolia, Japan, and the Russian Far East (Amur Oblast, Primorye). It is known in C ...'' *'' Artemisia verlotiorum'' {{Plant common name ...
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Artemisia Argyi
''Artemisia argyi'', commonly known as silvery wormwood or Chinese mugwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant with a creeping rhizome. It is native to China, Korea, Mongolia, Japan, and the Russian Far East (Amur Oblast, Primorye). It is known in Chinese as ''àicǎo'' () or ''ài yè'' () or ''ài hao'' ( 艾蒿) and in Japanese as ''gaiyou''. It is used in herbal medicine for conditions of the liver, spleen and kidney. Description ''Artemisia argyi'' is an upright, greyish, herbaceous perennial about one metre tall, with short branches and a creeping rhizome. The stalked leaves are ovate, deeply divided and covered in small, oil-producing glands, pubescent above and densely white tomentose below. The lower leaves are about six centimetres long, bipinnate with wide lanceolate lobes and short teeth along the margins. The upper leaves are smaller and three-partite, and the bracteal leaves are simple, linear and lanceolate. The inflorescence is a narrow leafy panicle. The individual ...
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