dusty miller

Noun

• an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers

• herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant

• a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust

• stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves

• shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mullein pink , rose campion , gardener's delight , Lychnis coronaria , beach wormwood , old woman , Artemisia stelleriana , Centaurea cineraria , Centaurea gymnocarpa , Senecio cineraria , Cineraria maritima , silver-lace , silver lace , Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum , Chrysanthemum ptar