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A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
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a shrubby fragrant plant with yellowish flowers and bitter-tasting leaves; it was used both as a culinary herb and in medicinal cures. "Boiled in barley meal it taketh away pimples," claims an early herbalist.
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shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer
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An herb which has essential oils that pass to the roots and act as a conditioner. Great for dull, lifeless hair, also used to encourage hair growth. Also used to deter flies.
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(Artemisia abrotanum). Tonic and aromatic.
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Southernwood, Old Man, Boy's Love, Oldman Wormwood, Lover's Plant, Appleringie, Garderobe, Our Lord's Wood, Maids Ruin, Garden Sagebrush, European Sage, Lad's Love, Southern Wormwood, or Lemon Plant, is a flowering plant, Artemisia abrotanum. Found in Europe and Great Britain, Artemisia was named for the Goddess Artemis. Southernwood, known as the herb of love, is ruled by Mercury.
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