Botanical Name: Senecio cineraria
Common Name: Dusty Miller
Type of Plant: dicot: perennial
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape clumping, upright, nearly shrubby plant composed of wooly, white foliage, sometimes topped with yellow flowers
Height 2-3'
Spread 2-3'
Growth Rate rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun to partial shade
Soil tolerates most any soil
Hardiness hardy (all zones)
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnately lobed into oblong, blunt segments--4-10' long; both surfaces white and densely tomentose; petioles long and winged
Flowers heads to 2" across, bright yellow, throughout the year occurring in terminal corymbs
Fruit small achenes – seeds heavily
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
valued as a foliage plant used as a facer or filler, to contrast with darker foliage; mixes well with brightly colored annuals; blends with most landscape styles
 
Landscape Care:
Watering likes regular watering, but tolerates drought after established
Fertilizing balanced fertilizer in spring
Pruning head back occasionally to remove spent flowers
Pests/Diseases none
Special Conditions/Other fire retardant if reasonably well watered
 
Origin: Mediterranean region
Family: Asteraceae

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