Artemisia perennial herbs; This plant has a fragrance. There are creeping underground stems. The stems are few or simple, and the height can reach 150 cm. Green and brown at first, then purple, with obvious longitudinal edges. The lower half is usually semi-lignified, and the upper half has branches with heads. The leaves are papery or thinly papery, the top is green, hairless or nearly hairless, and the back is densely covered with gray spider-like velveteen. The lower leaves of the stem are broadly ovate or ovate, the lobes of the lobed leaves are linear or linear-lanceolate, the petiole has no jia ye, and the lower leaves usually wither when flowering; The middle leaves are nearly palmate, with many heads, oblong or broadly ovate, and bracts ovate or suborbicular. At first, the back was sparsely covered with gray spider-like short hair, and the inflorescence was small and convex. The corolla of female flower is narrow and tubular, and the style is slender. It blooms and bears fruit from July to June.