''Artemisia capillaris'', ( zh, link=no, 茵陈蒿 yīn chén hāo), the capillary wormwood, is a species of flowering plant in the wormwood genus '' Artemisia'', family

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. ''Artemisia capillaris'' is 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. It is native to Pakistan, the western Himalayas,

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, all of China, Mongolia, the Korean Peninsula,

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and

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in Russia, the

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, and Japan, and has been widely introduced to Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, all of

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, and Taiwan. It is used in

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q5763748 capillaris Medicinal plants Flora of Pakistan Flora of West Himalaya Flora of Assam (region) Flora of China Flora of Mongolia Flora of Irkutsk Oblast Flora of Primorsky Krai Flora of Korea Flora of Japan Flora of the Ryukyu Islands Plants described in 1780