Artemisia herba-alba Asso - Asteraceae - white wormwood, armoise herbe blanche (fr.)

Upright, shrubby perennial, 0.20-0.40m high, native to Morocco and the Mediterranean region; leaves grey-green, pinnately divided, covered with fine glandular hairs, strongly aromatic.

The essential oil of the herb is used in perfumery (scent: fresh cedar thujonic minty camphoreous sage herbal bitter) as [[https://www.thegoodscentscompany.com/data/es1024712.html|armoise oil]]. \\
"Interesting blend of camphor balancing thuyone. Bittersweet and metallic effect with a rosemary flower dry out." [[https://www.iff.com/en/scent/lmr-naturals/online-compendium#armoise-oil-70-pct-thuyone|IFF]]

Major components of Artemisia herba-alba Asso essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation growing in eastern Morocco (Taforalt) were camphor (43.0%), camphene (7.2%), 1,8-cineole (7.0%), [[https://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=R233093|filifolone]] (7.0%), borneol (4.8%), and bornyl acetate (3,7%). \\
[Imelouane, B., et al. "Essential oil composition and antimicrobial activity of Artemisia herba-alba Asso grown in Morocco." Banat's Journal of Biotechnology 1.2 (2010)]

|{{:camphor.jpg|camphor}} \\ camphor |{{:thujone.jpg|thujone}} \\ thujone |{{:1.8cineole.jpg|1,8-cineole}} \\ 1,8-cineole |{{:borneol.jpg|borneol}} \\ borneol |

Main components of commercial oils were: \\
α-thujone (42.4%), β-thujone (17.0%), camphor (15.1%), and 1,8-cineole (4.4%): [[https://www.purenature.co.nz/site/purenature/images/ARMOISE-710.PNG|purenature]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20180313162559/https://www.purenature.co.nz/site/purenature/images/ARMOISE-710.PNG|(archived)]]\\
α-thujone (46.0%)%, camphor (22.4%), β-thujone (8.6%). [[https://www.edenbotanicals.com/armoise-mugwort.html|edenbotanicals]]

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Boissier, E.P., Voyage botanique dans le midi d’Espagne, vol.1 t.94 (1839-1845) [J.C. Heyland] 
[[http://botanicalillustrations.org/species.php?id_species=91942|botanicalillustrations.org]]

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Artemisia herba-alba, Madrid, Spain, (2025) © Álvaro Delgado Tenllado [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/|CC BY-SA 4.0]] [[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=461440|inaturalist.org]]