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Part of mugwort / sagebrush / 🪱 wormwood genus Artemisia in ✽ aster / ✽ daisy / 🌻︎ sunflower family Asteraceae.
Native to temperate Asia. 🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key). Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA
Uses by native peoples(Ethnobotany database) The original source of drug Artemisinin, used to treat ⚕︎ parasitic disease malaria — very successfully, until in some places, malaria evolved resistance. The common name wormwood apparently refers to the plant formerly being used to treat ⚕︎ human infections of parasitic 🪱 roundworm and whipworm — no, it did not work on this — quite useless.
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