1, odor difference. Mugwort will emit a unique fragrance, while the taste of artemisia has a taste of ordinary grass, mixed with a faint odor, through the smell can distinguish between them.

2, stem and leaf difference. Wormwood and artemisia have a great difference in appearance, from the height of the plant, artemisia to be shorter, its trunk is thin, the stem is dark red, the highest is about 10 centimeters, and wormwood can grow to 80-250 cm, its trunk is thicker and longer, the stem is light green, artemisia's leaves are small, narrow, long, the edge of the jagged grain blade and a layer of white fuzz, soft and smooth, and the leaves of the broad and fat. Wormwood's leaves are wide and fat, the surface of the leaf is gray-green, in the back of the leaf has white downy hair, this is the biggest difference between them.

3, growing place difference. Wormwood and Artemisia annua from the family are Asteraceae plants, is a close relative, but their names are different, wormwood scientific name Artemisia annua, alias xiao mao, bingtai, curb grass, fragrant ai, etc., often grows in the low altitude to the middle altitude areas of barren land, roadsides and slopes of the riverside and mountain slopes, but also in the grasslands to see it, and Artemisia annua scientific name Artemisia vulgaris, mainly grows in low altitude, wet riverbanks sandy, valleys, forest margins, roadsides, and so on! But there are southern regions, wormwood and Artemisia growing place is not very different, so it can not be completely based on this point of distinction.