Artemisia herba-alba
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Anthemideae |
| Genus: | Artemisia |
| Species: | A. herba-alba |
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Artemisia herba-alba Asso |
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Artemisia herba-alba (white wormwood) is a perennial shrub in the genus Artemisia that grows commonly on the dry steppes of the Mediterranean regions in Northern Africa (Saharan Maghreb), Western Asia (Arabian Peninsula) and Southwestern Europe. It is used as an antiseptic and antispasmodic in herbal medicine.
Its specific epithet herba-alba means "white herb" in Latin, as its stems and leaves are white and woolly. Similarly, it is armoise herbe-blanche or armoise blanche in French.
In Arabic, it is shīeḥ (الشيح). And it is la'anah (לענה) in Old Testament Hebrew. " Wormwood " ( in the Bible, Rev. 8:10-11 ).
Artemisia herba-alba is a chamaeophyte that grows to 20–40 cm (8–16 in). Leaves are strongly aromatic and covered with fine glandular hairs that reflect sunlight giving a grayish aspect to the shrub. The leaves of sterile shoots are grey, petiolate, ovate to in outline; whereas, the leaves of flowering stems, more abundant in winter, are much smaller.
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