The plant grows from 2 to 4 feet in height. The numerous flower heads are short-stemmed and hang in a many-flowered panicle. The capitula are small, globular, inclined and 3 to 4 mm wide and almost as long. The bracts are gray, silky-pubescent with a rounded tip. The outer ones are linear-oblong and pubescent while the inner ones are ovate, obtuse, broad and have a transparent, membranous margin. The receptacle is rough-haired. The flowers are yellow and fertile. The fruit is about 1.5 mm long.

Antibacterial and antifungal (essential leaf oil); analgesic, anthelmintic, antifertility, antiseptic, antispasmodic, stimulant, carminative, promotes or stimulates the flow of bile, deobstruent (of bowel), diuretic, reduces fever, narcotic.

Floridata

Thujone, azulene, thujyl alcohol, phellandrene, pinene, cadinene and guayanolide compunds (flower and essential leaf oil); absinthin, absinthic acid, artemetin, ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, chamazulene, iso-quercitrin, tannin (leaf); camphene, chlorogenic acid, formic acid, nicotinic acid, p-coumaric acid, pinene, rutin, salicyclic acid, vanillic acid (plant)

For sluggish stomach and gall bladder function, prolaped stomach, anemia, anxiety, parturition, chlorosis, depurifying the body, chronic fever, flatulence, gastric pain, gout, urinary stones, heartburn, indigestion, leukemia, depression and migraines.

People who are pregnant and with liver disease should not take this herb.

Stary, Medicinal Herbs and Plants.