One Gardener’s Weed is Another’s Wonder: Mugwort

by Ellen Rubenstein Chelmis | Aug 10, 2015 | Organic Gardening, Organic Living

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”).