
One Gardener’s Weed is Another’s Wonder: Mugwort
Mugwort is Artemesia vulgaris (aha, my point exactly!). While its famous cousin Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is one source, along with sweet fennel and green anise, of Absinthe, a Swiss distilled alcoholic liquor that is now almost entirely banned around the world, THIS variety is used to flavor ale (a nickname is “beer plant”).