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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Asteraceae (キク科) > Artemisia absinthium
Artemisia L. (ヨモギ)Nigayomogi (ニガヨモギ, 苦蓬), wormwoodLifeform: perennial forb or sub-shrub with 40-60 cm tall Distribution: Europe, northern America, northenr Asia, and northern Africa imported to Japan in late Edo Era Habitat: disturbed areas where there is little competition from other plants, such as roadsides, waste areas, farm yards, pastures, and croplands |
Flowering: July-September Seed dispersal: wind, (water and animals) Use: fragrance (vermouth, liqueur and absinthe), medicine (stomachic) and anthelminthic cultivated after Rome for medicine |
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[1] in a herb garden at the roof floor of National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, on August 19 2021.