Wormwood
கண்ணி
Artemisia absinthium L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 1.1 m
Asteraceae
Also called Absinthium
Formerly Absinthium vulgare, Artemisia albida, Artemisia baldaccii, Artemisia inodora, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and W. Himalaya, N. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- German
- Wermut
- Simplified Chinese
- 苦蒿, 苦艾, 中亚苦蒿
- Spanish
- Ajenjo
- Chinese
- 一枝蒿, 苦艾, 中亚苦蒿
- Asturian
- absintiu
- Czech
- pelyněk pravý
- Finnish
- mali
- French
- armoise absinthe
- Dutch
- absintalsem, Absintalsem
- Slovenian
- pravi pelin
- Tamil
- கண்ணி
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Artemisia absinthium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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