MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition

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Artemisia absinthium Linnaeus
wormwood
temperate Eurasia; introduced into North and South America,
New Zealand
In contrast to mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), another favourite of Classical
medicine,A. absinthium,is everywhere an obvious cottage garden herb that
has slipped out here and there into the wilds and in no part of the British

Artemisia absinthium,

wormwood (Fuchs

1543, fig. 1)