This Italian introduction has been very popular in rock gardens and is one of those escaped plants which does well in the UK. There are large patches of it all over the Great Orme for instance and the plants have established themselves amongst the native competing vegetation. This specimen was one of many which has escaped over the garden walls nearby but which has been known here for decades. Even on a beach sprayed by salt sea-water in winter it still flourishes.
The plant tends to flower freely and the obvious diagnostic is the grey leaves hence tomentosum.
Pensarn beach Abergele, 4th May 2005
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Added on 9th October 2005