Senecio 'Bella grigio'

Perennial forming a compact clump, silver-white, strappy foliage and daisy like yellow flowers. It is an easy-care, dry-tolerant plant that grows best in a sunny, well-drained position and can be used as an accent in pots or as a contrasting border plant. It comes from the páramo of Colombia and Ecuador, a high-altitude tundra zone found at about 4000 m of altitude in the Andes, a climate where it is cold at night all year long and rarely more than chilly during the day. If the plant is completely covered with white hairs, that’s partly to protect it from the cold, but also to filter out excess sunlight, because it usually grows above the clouds, fully exposed to harmful UV rays.