| Scientific Name: | Jacobaea maritima |
| Common Name: | dusty miller |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Semi-evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Group or mass planting, Rock garden, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Tomentose, Ovate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Small heads arranged in a corymb, Yellow, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Coral-like appearance, evergreen, often used as an annual in flower beds; leaves alternate, simple, ovate, most blades 5-10cm long x 2-5cm wide, deeply pinnately oblong-lobed, petioles 3-5cm long, covered in white to gray velvety hairs; heads of yellow disc and ray florets ~1.5cm wide, in a loose corymb-like arrangement will appear in summer of the second year (if not removed as a bedding plant). | |