Tarragon

Tarragon is a perennial herb of the daisy family, Asteraceae, grown mostly for its aniseed-flavoured leaves. Wikipedia notes that the cultivated culinary kind is Artemisia dracunculus var. sativa, which cooks call French tarragon, and that it is one of the fines herbes. Kynes gives it the elements air, fire and water, the sign Aries, and the planets Mars and Venus, with Aphrodite, Artemis, Diana, Lilith and Venus as its deities. She lists abundance, confidence, dream work, justice and legal matters, knowledge, peace and protection among its powers, and has seeds laid on the altar for protection and a leaf sachet kept under the pillow for dream work. She says the name comes from a word meaning little dragon, and that the Romans wore a sprig against snakes. Grieve gives little dragon and mugwort as other names and the leaves as the part used. The American Herbal Products Association and Wikipedia both record the estragole in the plant, set out in the safety notes.