Artemisia selengensis (scientific name: Artemisia selengensis Turcz. ex Bess.) is a plant of the genus Artemisia in the family Asteraceae . Young stems and leaves, rhizomes, also known as Artemisia vulgaris, water wormwood, water artemisia, etc.. Perennial herb; plant with fragrant odor. Main root inconspicuous or slightly obvious, with most lateral roots and fibrous fibrous roots; very thick stem slightly thick, erect or obliquely upward, 4-10 mm in diameter, with creeping underground stems. Leaves papery or thinly papery, green above, glabrous or subglabrous, abaxially densely gray-white arachnoid appressed woolly; proximal stem leaves broadly ovate or ovate, subpalmate or digitate, 5- or 3-parted or parted, lobes of divided leaves linear or linear-lanceolate. Heads numerous, oblong or broadly ovate, and forming a narrow, elongated panicle on the stem. Achenes ovate, slightly compressed, with occasional asymmetrical corolla bearing surface at upper end. Flowering and fruiting period July-October. Young stem and leaves can be cold and fried. The rhizomes can be pickled. It grows from 800 to 3,000 meters above sea level, often in moist open forests, mountain slopes, roadsides, and wastelands. It is found in Mongolia, Korea, Russia, and many parts of China. (Overview photo 1)