Taxon: Artemisia absinthium L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CO*, ND*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• absinthe   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• absinthe wormwood   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• absinthium   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• wormwood   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• ou zhou ai   (Source: F Taiwan ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• armoise absinthe   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• armoise amère   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Absinth   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• echter Wermut   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Wermut   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• nigayomogi   (Source: Pl Names ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• absinto   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• losna   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• polyn gor'kaja   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• absintio   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• ajenjo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• malört   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (once used to make absinthe, a harmful liqueur, but now only as flavoring fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide BernhardSmith; Pammel; Der Marderosian)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Biology of Canadian weeds 66. 1995)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Artemisia absinthium from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
  China: China - Xinjiang [n.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Jammu and Kashmir
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• BernhardSmith, A. 1923. Poisonous plants of all countries, 2nd ed. [poisonous].
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Der Marderosian, A. & L. Liberti. 1988. Natural product medicine: a scientific guide to foods, drugs, cosmetics. [poisonous].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hu, S.-Y. 1970. Compositae of China.
• Jarvis, C. E. & N. J. Turland, eds. 1998. Typification of Linnaean specific and varietal names in the Compositae (Asteraceae). Taxon 47:353. [typification].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with two varieties].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Ling, Y.-R. 1988. The Chinese Artemisia Linn. - the classification, distribution, and application of Artemisia Linn. in China. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 8(4):6.
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
• Maw, M. G. et al. 1995. The biology of Canadian weeds. 77:50–61.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Pammel, L. H. 1911. Manual of poisonous plants. [poisonous].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Artemisia absinthium.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Artemisia absinthium.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Artemisia absinthium.

Check other web resources for Artemisia absinthium L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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