Dusty Millers may grow to up to 17 cm high, each head being made up of numerous clusters of four- petalled, white, primrose flowers with a yellow centre. The stem and leaves are greeny grey due to a fine covering of white hairs. Flowers October to December. Likely to be found on dwarf shrub and sandy dry heathland.

Found on East and West Falklands, also on neighbouring Fuegia and Andean Patagonia to 41°S.

Sources include: Plants of the Falkland Islands - Ali Liddle 2007, Flowering Plants of the Falkland Islands- Robin W Woods, The Vascular Flora of the Falkland Islands- D. M. Moore, B.Sc., Ph.D, 1968,

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