Southernwood
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Southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum) is a flowering plant. Found in Europe, the genus Artemisia was named for the Goddess Artemis. Southernwood is known by many other names including Old Man, Boy's Love, Oldman Wormwood, Lover's Plant, Appleringie, Garderobe, Our Lord's Wood, Maid's Ruin, Garden Sagebrush, European Sage, Lad's Love, Southern Wormwood, and Lemon Plant.
The plant is a member of the genus Artemisia, along with mugwort and Wormwood (an ingredient in absinthe). Southernwood has a strong camphor-like odour and was historically used as an air freshener or strewing herb.
It forms a small bushy shrub, which is widely cultivated by gardeners. The grey-green leaves are small, narrow and feathery. The small flowers are yellow. It can easily be propagated by cuttings, or by division of the roots.
Read about Southernwood in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Artemisia abrotanum, Linn. Southernwood. Old Man. Shrubby, 3-5 ft., green and glabrous, the st. much branched and rather strict: Lvs. 1-3- pinnately divided, the divisions fine- filiform : panicle loose, with yellowish white heads. Eu.—Southernwood is grown for its pleasant-scent foliage; and it sometimes escapes into waste places. See Southernwood.
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Read about Southernwood in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum, which see for botanical account) is a European herb, aromatic, much branched, woody-stemmed, rather tender, perennial, 3 to 5 feet tall, with pale green or grayish often variegated leaves, small yellowish flowers and minute seeds. It is occasionally found in family gardens, where it is grown from seed (or more often from its easily rooted cuttings, which are most readily obtained in early summer) for its pleasant taste and tonic properties, which resemble those of wormwood. It is seldom offered by seedsmen in this country because of its slight importance. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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