WIKIPEDIA TAKE ON MUGWORT Artemisia vulgaris How to info Article HERBAL USE & BENEFITS

Artemisia vulgaris, the common mugwort,^[2] is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae.

Mugwort is a perennial plant that you will see growing along the roadside in spring and summer.

It is one of several species in the genus Artemisia commonly known as mugwort, although Artemisia vulgaris is the species most often called mugwort.

Essential oil of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) in a small brown bottle, fresh sagebrush branches on a dark wooden table

Medicinal plant wormwood bitter Artemisia vulgaris.

It is also occasionally known as riverside wormwood,^[3] felon herb, chrysanthemum weed, wild wormwood, old Uncle Henry, sailor’s tobacco, naughty man, old man, or St. John’s plant (not to be confused with St John’s wort).^[4]