dusty miller

noun

Botany.��
1. any of several composite plants, as Centaurea cineraria, Senecio cineraria, or the beach wormwood, having pinnate leaves covered with whitish pubescence.
2. rose campion.
Angling.��a type of artificial fly used chiefly for trout and salmon.

dusty miller

noun

Also called: snow-in-summer.��a caryophyllaceous plant, Cerastium tomentosum, of SE Europe and Asia, having white flowers and downy stems and leaves: cultivated as a rock plant
a plant, Artemisia stelleriana, of NE Asia and E North America, having small yellow flower heads and downy stems and leaves: family Asteraceae (composites)
any of various other downy plants, such as the rose campion

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dusty miller¹

First recorded in 1815–25

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Lucy and I had both a fight for it with the dusty miller; I know it was a hard fight on my part, and I am quite heroic.

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Their woodlands theme box uses bleeding heart, hosta and columbine; an indoor “jungle box” includes monstera and elephant’s ear; and a “Southern belle” box mixes foxglove, snapdragon, sweet potato vines and dusty miller.

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Here, they can wander among scarecrows and jack-o’-lanterns, investigate a Victorian playhouse, pot up a ghostly-looking dusty miller plant to take home and put on a show with insect and owl puppets.

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In October, they were replaced with 5,300 violas in three varieties and 500 silver-leafed dusty miller plants, all underplanted with 4,200 bulbs — a pink fringed tulip and two varieties of hyacinth.

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Or try a shade pot with vivid white or red cyclamen in the center, surrounded by dusty miller and the dainty-flowered lamium.

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