How to identify Dusty Miller
Identify Dusty Miller by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Confirm leaf type: Pinnately compound.
- Confirm leaf shape: Oblong.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In India, compare location records such as Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil Nadu.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Dusty Miller.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Jacobaea maritima
- Genus
- Jacobaea
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Found in India
- Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil Nadu
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Pinnately compoundrecordedLeaflets are arranged in rows along a central stalk, like a feather.“The leaves are pinnate or pinnatifid, 5–15 centimetres (2.0–5.9 in) long and 3–7 centimetres (1.2–2.8 in) broad, stiff, with oblong and obtuse segments, and like the stems, covered” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- OblongrecordedLonger than wide with roughly parallel sides, the ends rounded.“The leaves are pinnate or pinnatifid, 5–15 centimetres (2.0–5.9 in) long and 3–7 centimetres (1.2–2.8 in) broad, stiff, with oblong and obtuse segments, and like the stems, covered” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf margin
- LobedrecordedThe edge is divided into rounded or pointed sections that don't reach the midrib.“the lower leaves are petiolate and more deeply lobed, the upper leaves sessile and less lobed.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- GlabrousrecordedSmooth, hairless.“The tomentum is thickest on the underside of the leaves, and can become worn off on the upper side, leaving the top surface glabrous with age.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Dusty Miller itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“The flowers are yellow, daisy-like in dense capitula 12–15 millimetres (0.47–0.59 in) in diameter, with central disc florets surrounded by a ring of 10–13 ray florets, and enclosed” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- AchenerecordedA small, dry, single-seeded fruit that does not split open.“The seeds are cylindrical achenes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Dusty Miller itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
About Dusty Miller
Dusty Miller (Jacobaea maritima) is a species in the Asteraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Jammu & Kashmir and Tamil Nadu.
Uses
Locally it is planted as an ornamental.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Dusty Miller belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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