Artemisia scoparia from Kashmir

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Gurcharan Singh

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Jul 29, 2011, 3:58:41 AM7/29/11
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Artemisia scoparia Waldst. & Kit., Descr. icon. pl. Hung. 1:66, t. 65. 1801

common names: yin-chen wormwood, red-stem wormwood.

Vernacular names: Jhau, Lasaj, dona, marua and Churi Saroj.

Biennial or perennial herb with slender purplish branches, leaves cut into linear segments, lower petiolate, upper sessile and auricled; heads hardly 2 mm, nodding, in panicles.

Photographed from Tapiana sahib, Sialkot, 25 km from Baramulla in Kashmir.
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