Artemisia vulgaris L., it is a perennial herb without over wintering rosettes and its exhibiting extreme variation in morphology. Rhizomes about few millimeters to > 1 cm in diameter. Stems erect, simple or compound (30-) 60-120 (-210) cm, sparsely pubescent, often glabrescent, usually red or purplish. Leaves 1 -10 cm wide, with the upper surface being slightly hairy and the lower surface covered with silvery-white wooly hairs. Leaves 1-pinnatifid, auriculate at base, the segments sometimes deeply lobed, with an obscure network of small veins. Lower leaves shortly petiolate, upper sessile. Capitula numerous, sub – sessile, erect or slightly recurved, crowded on the branches of a large panicle. Bracts leaf-like, the upper small and simple. Involucre 205 – 3 mm, campanulate or ovoid; bracts grayish-arachnoid-pubescent, the outer lanceolate, acute, broadly scarious, the inner longer, oblong, obtuse. Flowers are strongly aromatic, greenish yellow in colour, and generally contain a double-branched style and many stamens. Receptacle glabrous. Fruit cypsela, ridged, brown, oblong with a narrow base and have minute bristles at apex.
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