Artemisia abrotanum, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 183

27. A. abrotanum L. , Sp. Pl. 845 (1753)

( A. paniculata Lam. ).

Strongly aromatic shrub c. 100 cm. Leaves 1 - to 3-pinnatifid, with filiform, glandular-punctuate lobes, glabrous above and greyish-pubescent beneath; petioles short, not auriculate. Capitula 3-4 x 3-4 mm, globose, shortly pedunculate, in the axils of simple, leaf-like bracts, 1-3 times as long as the capitula. Inner involucral bracts ovate. Receptacle glabrous. Capitula with 25-30 florets; corolla yellowish. 2л = 18. Widely cultivated for ornament and flavouring, and naturalized in E., S. & S.C. Europe. [Au Cz Ga Ge He Hs Hu It Ju Rm Rs (N, C, W, E).] (Native country uncertain.)