Accession Data

Jacobaea maritima

Common Name: Silver Ragwort

Family: Asteraceae

Country of Origin: Mediterranean region

Description: Silver Ragwort is a very white-wooly, heat and drought tolerant evergreen subshrub. As with other densely tomentose plants, the tomentum on the leaves is used by some species of bees for nest-building.3

Accession Data

Accession #: 201000173

Accession Date: 2010-12-06 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2104

Quantity: 2

Source: Matt Opel

Provenance: cuttings from naturalized plant on Wood Neck Beach, Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid II

Order: Asterales

Family: Asteraceae

SubFamily: Asteroideae

Tribe: Senecioneae

SubTribe: Senecioninae

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
  2. Jacobaea maritima at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
  3. Jacobaea maritima at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.

Images

Jacobaea maritima
Jacobaea maritima