Artemisia maritima Sea Wormwood

Artemisia maritima (Seriphidium maritimum), Sea Wormwood, is plant of the upper Saltmarsh and sea walls. It has very distivctive white-woolly leves which have a strong, but pleasant aromatic, worwood smell when crushed. The leaves are more or less 2-pinnate with relatively long linear segments. It is widespread in Britain and occasional to locally frequent on saltmarshes in West Glamorgan.

Native