Wormwood
Appearance
(Redirected from Wormwood (plant))
Wormwood may refer to:
Biology
[edit]- Several plants of the genus Artemisia:
- Artemisia abrotanum, southern wormwood
- Artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, grande wormwood or absinthe wormwood
- Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood or annual wormwood
- Artemisia herba-alba, white wormwood, the wormwood of the Bible
- Artemisia pontica, Roman wormwood
- Artemisia princeps, Korean wormwood
- Artemisia verlotiorum
- Artemisia vulgaris
- A caterpillar that eats some of the above:
- Cucullia absinthii, a caterpillar/moth in the family Noctuidae
Places
[edit]- Wormwood Scrubs, an open space in the Hammersmith area of West London
- HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, a prison in West London
- Wormwood Street, in the City of London
- Wormwood Forest, former name of the Red Forest in Ukraine, surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Fictional entities
[edit]- Wormwood, a character in C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters
- Matilda Wormwood, the title character of the children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Harry Wormwood, Zinnia Wormwood, Michael Wormwood, other characters in Matilda
- Miss Wormwood, a minor character in Calvin and Hobbes
- Mrs Wormwood, a character in the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Invasion of the Bane, who reappeared in Enemy of the Bane
Film and television
[edit]- Wormwood (miniseries), a 2017 docudrama directed by Errol Morris
Literature
[edit]- Wormwood (Bible), a "star" that falls to earth in the end times, makes water bitter, and kills many people
- Wormwood (short story collection), a book of short horror stories by Poppy Z. Brite
- Wormwood (Taylor novel), a 2004 fantasy novel by Graham Taylor
- Wormwood, a collection of science fiction stories by Terry Dowling
- Wormwood: A Drama of Paris, an 1890 novel by Marie Corelli
Periodicals
[edit]- Wormwood (magazine), a magazine of literature and literary criticism
- Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, a comic book series by Ben Templesmith
- Wormwood Review, a literary magazine published from 1959 to 1999
- Chronicles of Wormwood, a comic book miniseries by Garth Ennis from Avatar Press
Music
[edit]- Wormwood, a side-project band featuring two members of Doomriders
- Wormwood (Marduk album), 2009
- Wormwood (Moe album), 2003
- Wormwood (The Acacia Strain album), 2010
- Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible, a 1998 album by the Residents
- Wormwood Live, a 1999 live album by the Residents
See also
[edit]- Wyrmwood, a 2014 horror film by Kiah Roache-Turner