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  • COMMON NAME: Mugwort, Wormwood, Sagebrush.
  • ARABIC: شيح، غيته
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Artemisia herba-alba Asso.
  • SYNONYMS: Artemisia sieberi Besser
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Ras-Al-Khaimah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: very rare in he UAE, Ras Al-Khaimah to sham mountains.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://agronomie.info/fr/artemisia-herba-alba/ https://wastemagazine.es/artemisiaherbaalba.htm V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Fodder for livestock. Crushed and infusion made, taken orally. (The plant contains essential oils, which are reported to be toxic against Ascaris). Locally infusion of crushed leaves as a worm treatment and to combat fevers. Inhaling smoke thought to be beneficial for both man and animals. Mountain travelers eat new shoots as a digestive.

Aromatic, woody perennial, up to 50 cm high, grey, tomentose, later glabrescent, erect, many-branched from the base, lower leaves 1-2-pinnatisect, fleshy, with oblong-spathulate lobes, 1-2 mm long, short petiolate; upper leaves of flowering stems sessile, smaller, few lobed. Heads 3-5 mm long, oblong, sessile, erect in a freely branched panicle, with 2-4 flowered. Involucral bracts imbricate, 2-3 mm long, bracts ovate, brown, hairy-glandular, outer bracts minute, herbaceous, fleshy orbicular, inner bracts much longer, oblong, obtuse, membranous, glossy. 

Flowering from September to January.
rocky places, wadis and basins.
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