I am looking for wild wormwood (artemisia absinthium) in Colorado. Does anyone know where this stuff grows?

Question

I plan on using it in a special tea blend, and it's always better to find fresh wormwood than buying it dried from some herb shop.

Answer 1

The habitat, wild Arthemisia absinthium is to find in, is waste land, rocks and screes.

Here a distribution map for Colorado:

http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state...

and some general info, in case you decide after all to cultivate it:

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?...

http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plant...

Answer 2

Artemisia absinthium (absinthium, absinthe wormwood, wormwood or grand wormwood) is a species of wormwood, native to temperate regions of Europe, Asia and northern Africa.