Also Known As: Tarragon is also known as Little Dragon, Mugwort, dragon's-wort.

Tarragon is a perennial herb in the family Asteraceae related to wormwood. It is native to a wide area of the Northern Hemisphere from easternmost Europe across central and eastern Asia to India, western North America, and south to northern Mexico. The North American populations may, however, be naturalized from early human introduction.

This spice is not popular in India, though it grows in certain places in India in wild state. Only recently it is gaining popularity due to western influence. However, it is well known in Europe as a spice and used for flavoring foods.

The dried leaves and flowering tops of the plant constitute what is known as Tarragon or Estragon, so well known to the connoisseurs the world over for its unusual intriguing flavor. Sometimes, it is called `French Tarragon, its aroma is warm, aromatic and reminiscent of anise.

The herb has numerous branching stems, which bear lance-shaped leaves and nowadays white, sterile flowers.

This aromatic perennial herb is grown for its distinctively flavored leaves. Tarragon grows to 120–150 cm tall, with slender branched stems.

Flowers:
The herb have yellow or greenish white; small, globe-shaped; in terminal panicles; rarely fully open and usually sterile.The flowers are produced in small capitulae 2–4 mm diameter, each capitulum containing up to 40 yellow or greenish-yellow florets.

Leaves:
The leaves are linear to lanceolate, 2–8 cm long and 2–10 mm broad, glossy green, or undivided; 1-4 in. long; borne singly at top of plant, in groups of three below with an entire margin.

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