Wormwood

Wormwood may refer to:

Biology

• 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

• 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

Fictional characters

• 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
• Wormwood, a playable character in Don't Starve: Hamlet and Don't Starve Together

Film and television

• Wormwood (miniseries), a 2017 docudrama directed by Errol Morris

Literature

• 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
• ', an 1890 novel by Marie Corelli

• Wormwood (magazine), a magazine of literature and literary criticism
• ', 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

• Wormwood, a side-project band featuring two members of Doomriders
• Wormwood (Marduk album), 2009
• Wormwood (Moe album), 2003
• Wormwood (The Acacia Strain album), 2010
• ', a 1998 album by the Residents
• Wormwood Live, a 1999 live album by the Residents