Wormwood

Family: Asteraceae. Name: there are two versions of the origin of the genus name. Some believe it was named after the queen of Halicarnassus — Artemiski, the wife of King Mausolus. Others, the majority, associate the genus name with the fertility goddess Artemis (Diana), taking into account the medicinal properties of these plants.

Description: the genus includes more than 250 species distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

Plants are perennial, less often annual or biennial, herbaceous or semi-shrubby. Leaves are alternately arranged, deeply divided, less often entire. Inflorescences are heads (capitula), very small, which are in turn gathered into racemose, paniculate or head-like clusters. Ray florets have a narrow, filiform corolla, white, yellow or pink; disc florets are tubular, yellow or pink. The fruit is an achene. Up to 30,000 seeds per 1 g.

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