A much branched stiff, strongly aromatic, shrubby perennial, with very dissected pale gray to almost white leaves with narrow branched spikes of axillary clusters of tiny yellowish to reddish flower heads.
Habitat:
The plant grows most abundantly on the sandy dry hill slopes between 2,440m to 3,080m elevations. This plant is found all over Gilgit/Baltistan.
Medicinal uses:
Artemisia leaves and flowers are antispasmodic, stimulant, cardiac, tonic and anthelmintics. Decoction or infusion of leaves is used in “ague” intermittent and remittent fever. Locally the fresh leaves are soaked in water kept over night and the water is taken as vermifuge. It is also used as fuel, Toothache.
