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Asteraceae

Oriental wormwood

Artemisia japonica Thunb.

Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Artemisia

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Oriental wormwood: Artemisia japonica , Aizu area, Fukushima pref., Japan
Photo: Qwert1234, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (6)
Azerbaijani
Yapon yovşanı
Chinese
牡蒿, 土柴胡, 水辣菜, 油蒿, 牡蒿根, 细叶牡蒿, 蔚, 齐头蒿
English
Oriental wormwood
Japanese
オトコヨモギ
Korean
제비쑥
Vietnamese
Ngải Nhật

Synonyms

  • Artemisia japonica f. japonica
  • Artemisia japonica subsp. japonica
  • Artemisia japonica var. parviflora (Roxb. ex D.Don) Pamp.
  • Draconia japonica (Thunb.) Soják
  • Oligosporus japonicus (Thunb.) Poljakov

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.