Artemisia abrotanum, the southernwood, lad's love, or southern wormwood, is a species of flowering plant in the sunflower family.

In France, it is called garderobe which means guard the wardrobe, referring to the old practice of placing plant sprigs where you would put your clothes to deter moths and other insects.

[9] It is called Abroddman or male southernwood and shares its Swedish name with the cotton lavender Santolina chamaecyparissus.

[8] It has been mentioned as early as the sixteenth century in Swedish Danish medicinal books that it was used as a treatment for people and animals.

customary to lay sprays of the herb amongst clothes, or to hang them in closets, and this is the origin of one of the southernwood's French names, "garderobe" ("clothes-preserver").

Judges carried posies of southernwood and rue to protect themselves from prisoners' contagious diseases, and some church-goers relied on the herb's sharp scent to keep them awake during long sermons.

[10] In the traditional medicine of East and North Bosnia and Herzegovina, aerial parts of Artemisia abrotanum are used in jaundice therapy.

Two studies were done to see if southernwood did have the positive benefits, one on dryness in lower legs and the other on multiple factors on in the facial regions.

In the second study, patients with coarse wrinkling in the crows feet and upper cheek areas, and also moderate pigmentation, were used.

[12] A nasal spray treatment was created to assist patients with allergic rhinitis that contains phytoconstituents 1,8-cineole, linalool, and davonone.

[7] In 2012, the European Food Safety Authority reported that all the aerial parts of Artemisia abrotanum contain substances that can be toxic to humans, due to the presence in the essential oil of bicyclic monoterpenes and phenylpropanoids.