Species guide
Artemisia argyi
Silvery Wormwood
Artemisia argyi is one of the East Asian mugworts most strongly associated with traditional Chinese medicine and moxa production. Recent reviews treat it as a major aromatic and medicinal Artemisia in China rather than as a generic wild mugwort, so the page is most useful when read in that medicinal and cultural context.
Accepted name
Artemisia argyi
Subgenus
Artemisia
Section
Artemisia
Range
Native to Amur, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin. Introduced into Afghanistan, Altay, Assam, Bangladesh, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, Chita, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Magadan, Mongolia, Nepal, North Caucasus, Oman, Palestine, Qinghai, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yemen, Artemisia argyi, argyi, Artemisia argyi, gracilis, Pamp
Habitat
Grows primarily in the temperate biome
Species-specific papers
6
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