''Artemisia verlotiorum'', the Chinese mugwort, is a species of plant in the sunflower family, widespread across much of

Eurasia Eurasia (, ) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia. Primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it spans from the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to the Japanese archipelag ...

Etymology

It is named for Jean Baptiste Verlot, who first distinguished the plant from ''

Artemisia vulgaris ''Artemisia vulgaris'', the common mugwort, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae. It is one of several species in the genus '' Artemisia'' commonly known as mugwort, although ''Artemisia vulgaris'' is the species mos ...

'' in 1877 and for his brother Pierre Bernard Verlot, and is sometimes referred to as Verlot's Mugwort.

Description

It has oblong reddish to brown capitula, its stems are green and the leaves broader, lighter colored and denser on the stem. The plant is more strongly and pleasantly aromatic than ''

''. It flowers very late in the summer, but reproduces mainly by stolons, thus forming thick groups. Chinese Mugwort shares the same habitat as ''Artemisia vulgaris'', and both are very common. ''Artemisia verlotiorum'' is often confused with ''Artemisia vulgaris'' ("common mugwort"), which is closely related.Eleonora Gabrielian & Joan Vallès Xirau: New Data about the Genus ''Artemisia'' L. (Asteraceae) in Armenia. Willdenowia Bd. 26, H. 1/2 (Nov. 29, 1996), pp. 245-250.

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