Scientific Name: Artemisia absinthium.
English Name: Wormwood.
French Name: Absinthe.
5 Key Characters:
Habitat: Wasteground, uncultivated land, roadsides, rocks, scree and hedgerows.
Flowering Period: July-August-September.
Status: Fairly locally common around Preuilly-sur-Claise, but not present in the Brenne. Often naturalised in France, as it was the principal herb used to flavour the drink Absinthe and some vermouths. It was also used as a stimulant, vermifuge (worm treatment), insecticide and in brewing instead of hops. Its medicinal and commercial use is regulated.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
Photographs are numbered from left to right and top to bottom. All photos enlarge in a new window if you click on them. 1 on a roadside bank near Preuilly-sur-Claise.
English Name: Wormwood.
French Name: Absinthe.
5 Key Characters:- very aromatic.
- 30 - 90 cm tall.
- leaf segments blunt tipped and silvery grey with silky hairs on both sides.
- drooping yellow globular flowers in a pyramidal spike.
- leaves deeply cut, with segments wider than 2 mm.
Habitat: Wasteground, uncultivated land, roadsides, rocks, scree and hedgerows.
Flowering Period: July-August-September.
Status: Fairly locally common around Preuilly-sur-Claise, but not present in the Brenne. Often naturalised in France, as it was the principal herb used to flavour the drink Absinthe and some vermouths. It was also used as a stimulant, vermifuge (worm treatment), insecticide and in brewing instead of hops. Its medicinal and commercial use is regulated.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
Photographs are numbered from left to right and top to bottom. All photos enlarge in a new window if you click on them. 1 on a roadside bank near Preuilly-sur-Claise.
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