Species guide
Artemisia annua
Kusoninjin
Artemisia annua, often known as sweet annie or qinghao, is best known as the plant source of artemisinin. That makes it one of the most historically important Artemisia species in modern medicine, but the summary here stays with source-backed botanical context and does not treat raw-herb use as interchangeable with clinical antimalarial therapy.
Accepted name
Artemisia annua
Subgenus
Seriphidium
Section
Annuae
Range
Native to China, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe (naturalized across Japan)
Habitat
Urban areas
Species-specific papers
1
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