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Artemisia herba-alba

White mugwort Artemisia herba alba (Arabic: chih) From the Compositae family, white mugwort is a very branched bush. Its stems are numerous, tomentose and measure 30 to 50 cm high. Usually fragrant, the leaves are short, generally pubescent and silvery in appearance. A steppe plant, it is very abundant on the High Plateaux and rarer in the northern Sahara. The tops have anthelmintic properties.