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

Fictional entities

 * 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
 * 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

 * 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
 * Wormwood: A Drama of Paris, an 1890 novel by Marie Corelli

Periodicals

 * 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

 * 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