Exploration and classification of chromatographic fingerprints as additional tool for identification and quality control of several Artemisia species.

•The fingerprint development emphasises dissimilarities between 4 Artemisia species.•Validation and quality control fingerprints were shown to be acceptable.•3D PCA score plots visualised the species as rather distinct groups.•Within 199 unique samples, those of different quality were successfully detected.•A SIMCA model to identify samples was built and validated (incl. 6 other species).