Capillary Wormwood

Artemisia capillaris (Chinese: 茵陈蒿 yīn chén hāo), the capillary wormwood, is a species of flowering plant in the wormwood genus Artemisia, family Asteraceae.

Artemisia capillaris is a biennial or perennial herb, 30-80(100) cm tall with vertical, woody rootstock and usually a single to few, slender, erect, pale purplish or reddish brown, glabrous stems. Leaves are silky hairy, basal ones shortly petiolate, middle stem leaves almost sessile. Synflorescence is a narrow to wide panicle with many capitula composed of 8 to 12 yellow florets. Oblong-ovate, brown achenes are minuscule ca. 0.8 mm.