Artemisia absinthium
Artemisia glomerata
absinth wormwood, absinthe, absinthe wormwood, absinthium, armoise absinthe, common wormwood, green ginger, oldman, oldman wormwood, wormwood
congested sagewort, cudweed sagewort, Pacific alpine wormwood
gray-green (sometimes woody proximally), densely canescent to glabrescent (hairs appressed).
relatively numerous, ascending, brown, simple, hairy.
deciduous, gray-green;
blades broadly ovate, 3–8 × 1–4 cm, mostly pinnately lobed (basal 2–3-pinnatifid, lobes obovate), faces densely canescent.
mostly basal (cauline mostly 2–4, smaller), whitish;
blades (basal) flabellate, 0.5–1(–2) × 0.5–0.8(–1.5) cm, relatively deeply lobed (lobes 5–9, linear), faces strigillose.
broadly ovoid, 2–3 × 3–5 mm.
broadly campanulate, 3–4 × 3.5–5 mm.
pistillate 9–20;
bisexual 30–50;
corollas 1–2 mm, glandular.
pistillate 4–5;
bisexual 10–15;
corollas yellow (3–5-toothed), 2–2.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose.
gray-green, densely sericeous.
lanceolate (margins brownish), densely pilose.
(nodding) in open (diffusely branched), paniculiform arrays 10–20(–35) × (2–)10–13(–15) cm.
(3–10, erect or nodding, peduncles 0 or to 15 mm) in subcapitate to corymbiform arrays 1–5 × 2–4 cm.
(± cylindric, slightly curved, obscurely nerved), ± 0.5 mm, glabrous (shiny).
ellipsoid (flattened, margins ribbed), 1–1.5 mm, glabrous.
= 18.
= 18, 27, 36, 54.
Artemisia absinthium
Artemisia glomerata
Artemisia absinthium provides the flavoring as well as the psychoactive ingredient for absinthe liquor, a beverage that is illegal in some markets. Known as a powerful neurotoxin, absinthe in large quantities is addictive as well as deadly. The species is popular in the horticultural trade. Prized by gardeners for its gracefully scalloped leaves and gray-green foliage, it creates an attractive and winter-hardy flower border.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Artemisia glomerata is similar to A. senjavinensis; it can be distinguished by its more deeply lobed leaves and sparser indument.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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