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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 armoise oil.
„Interesting blend of camphor balancing thuyone. Bittersweet and metallic effect with a rosemary flower dry out.“ 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%), 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 |  thujone |  1,8-cineole |
Main components of commercial oils were:
α-thujone (42.4%), β-thujone (17.0%), camphor (15.1%), and 1,8-cineole (4.4%): purenature
α-thujone (46.0%)%, camphor (22.4%), β-thujone (8.6%). edenbotanicals
Boissier, E.P., Voyage botanique dans le midi d’Espagne, vol.1 t.94 (1839-1845) [J.C. Heyland]
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Artemisia herba-alba, Madrid, Spain, (2025) © Álvaro Delgado Tenllado CC BY-SA 4.0 inaturalist.org