Japanese name: サマニヨモギ（様似蓬） Scientific name:Artemisia arctica subsp. sachalinensis
[Overview]
A perennial 20–50 cm tall, found on gravelly ground and grassland in high mountains.
It has a long rhizome extending vertically and does not produce underground runners.
The stems grow in clusters.
Non-flowering stems are short and bear leaves in a rosette.
The rosette leaves, including the petiole, are 6–12 cm long and 3.5–4 cm wide, deeply bipinnately divided, at first with long soft white to yellowish brown hairs, later becoming hairless.
The margins of the rosette leaves have notched teeth.
The flower stalk at first has long soft yellowish brown hairs.
The leaves on the flower stalk are alternate, deeply once- or twice-pinnately divided, and have petioles.
The flower heads form racemose or compound racemose spikes.
The flower heads are hemispherical, 1 cm across, and yellow, with no ray florets.
The fruit is an achene.
