How to identify Chinese Wormwood
Identify Chinese Wormwood by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glaucous (waxy blue-grey bloom).
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Chinese Wormwood.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Crossostephium chinense
- Genus
- Crossostephium
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glaucous (waxy blue-grey bloom)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Chinese Wormwood itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Chinese Wormwood itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
About Chinese Wormwood
Chinese Wormwood (Crossostephium chinense) belongs to the Asteraceae family.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Chinese Wormwood belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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