Jacobaea maritima - Dusty miller

Dusty miller (Jacobaea maritima) is an evergreen shrub with silvery, felted foliage, native to Mediterranean coasts and naturalized on maritime cliffs elsewhere, including southwest England.¹ Its leaf juice has an ophthalmic medicinal use, but the plant contains liver-toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids and should not be used internally.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Well drained soil¹
• Moist soil¹

Outputs

• Medicinal use¹

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen¹

Functions

• Windbreak¹

Footnotes

1. Senecio cineraria | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹