Can anyone identify this?

[SolomonsSeal]

Hi I live in Brighton - this grows all over the place and in my garden, but I've realised I don't know what it is, and searching on identification sites has got me nowhere

[Hedera]

It's Cineraria maritima, a plant used for effect usually in pots and baskets, but makes a nice garden plant. Can be grown from cuttings like a soft shrub.

[SolomonsSeal]

That's smashing. Thank you.
I never even got round to mentioning the flowers.

[Hedera]

It has yellow daisy-like flowers in sprays but not until the second year or so.

[aeshna5]

More correctly Senecio cineraria, the Silver Ragwort.

[Dorts]

There has always been great confusion over the naming of this species.
In my early days in horticulture I remember we used two names for what we, and many others considered to be two distinct species. They certainly looked different, but we now know(?) they were just selected forms of the same species.
They were Cineraria maritima, and Senecio cineraria. Other names were used, some here, some in other countries, such as Jacobaea maritima, Senecio bicolor ssp. cineraria, Senecio cineraria ssp. bicolor, Othonna maritima.

As Aeshna5 has said, the name now in common usage is Senecio cineraria.
But as we know only too well, nothing is for ever in plant nomenclature.
Dorts.

[Hedera]

My brain can't stand this! I'm sticking with the name on the seed packet.

[Dorts]

Originally Posted by Hedera

My brain can't stand this! I'm sticking with the name on the seed packet.

'If it says it on the packet, then that's what it is.' If only it were true!
Dorts.

[SolomonsSeal]

Wikipedia gives it as Senecio cinereria with Cinereria maritima as one of a dozen synonyms, so that's what it is to me now. It laso has a much nicer picture than mine! Mine seeded itself right outside my kitchen window years ago but grows in a lot of places around here, often quite high. Thank you again for the help.