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A number of plants are commonly called "dusty millers" because of their silvery leaves covered with densely matted woolly hairs. One is the silver ragwort (Jacobaea maritima; formerly classified as Senecio cineraria), which is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant; the velvet centaurea (Centaurea cineraria) is normally grown as foliage and is known as "fiordaliso delle scogliere" (cornflower of the cliffs) on its native Capraia (near Montecristo and Elba in the Tuscan Archipelago), and the bloody William (Silene coronaria; the feminine form of the wise Greek woodland deity Silene + coronaria,"used for garlands").
A number of plants are commonly called "dusty millers" because of their silvery leaves covered with densely matted woolly hairs. One is the silver ragwort (Jacobaea maritima; formerly classified as Senecio cineraria), which is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant; the velvet centaurea (Centaurea cineraria) is normally grown as foliage and is known as "fiordaliso delle scogliere" (cornflower of the cliffs) on its native Capraia (near Montecristo and Elba in the Tuscan Archipelago), and the bloody William (Silene coronaria; the feminine form of the wise Greek woodland deity Silene + coronaria,"used for garlands").
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