[ **up: [[Herbalism]] | [[Plants]] | [[Angiosperms]] | [[Asterales (Order)]] | [[Asteraceae (Family)]]** ] --- # Mugwort | *Artemisia* (Genus) > Mugwort is a common name for several species of aromatic flowering plants in the genus Artemisia. In Europe, mugwort most often refers to the species *Artemisia vulgaris*, or common mugwort. In East Asia the species *Artemisia argyi* is often called “Chinese mugwort” in the context of [[Chinese medicine|traditional Chinese medicine]], Ngai Chou in Cantonese or àicǎo (艾草) for the whole plant in Mandarin, and àiyè (艾叶) for the leaf, which is used specifically in the practice of moxibustion. *Artemisia princeps* is a mugwort known in Korea as *ssuk* (쑥) and in Japan as *yomogi* (ヨモギ).[1] While other species are sometimes referred to by more specific common names, they may be called simply “mugwort” in many contexts.[^1] Mugwort has also been known as *Cronewort.*[^2] --- ## Taxonomy - **[[Life (Biology)]]** - **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]** - **[[Plants|Plantae (Kingdom)]]* - [[Magnoliophyta (Division)|Angiosperms/Magnoliophyta (Division)]] <small>has flowers</small> - [[Asterales (Order)]] - [[Asteraceae (Family)]] - *[[Mugwort|Artemisia (Genus)]]* <small>MUGWORT</small> ----- **Subspecies:** - *[[Common mugwort|Artemisia vulgaris]]* <small>COMMON MUGWORT</small> - *[[Artemisia argyi]]* <small>CHINESE MUGWORT</small> --- [[2025-0324. 'A long time emblem of wildcrafters, Cronewort, like the thirteenth fairy, never fails to show up uninvited on the doorstep of the herbalist devoted to using wild common plants for food and medicine.' (Cronewort is Mugwort.)|'A long time emblem of wildcrafters, Cronewort, like the thirteenth fairy, never fails to show up uninvited on the doorstep of the herbalist devoted to using wild common plants for food and medicine.']][^3] [^1]: ‘Mugwort’, *Wikipedia*, updated 17 October 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwort. [^2]: Judith Berger, *Herbal Rituals*, in: Amber Magnolia Hill, ‘[[Hill. ‘Story is Medicine_ The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path’, 2018.|Story is Medicine: The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path]]’, *Plant Healer*, vol. 8, issue 2 (Spring 2018), p. 100. [^3]: Judith Berger, *Herbal Rituals*, in: Amber Magnolia Hill, ‘[[Hill. ‘Story is Medicine_ The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path’, 2018.|Story is Medicine: The Mythic Imagination on the Healing Path]]’, *Plant Healer*, vol. 8, issue 2 (Spring 2018), p. 100.