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Lunaria annua
Also called Honesty, Money Plant, Penny Flower, Satin Flower, Silver Dollar, Moneyplant, Silver Dollar Plant
Annual honesty is a biennial (often grown as an annual) cabbage-family plant grown for its purple, white or pink spring flowers and its silvery, translucent seed discs used in dried arrangements. It is easy from seed and self-seeds readily, so sow it where you want it to grow.
Lunaria annua, commonly called honesty or annual honesty, is a species of flowering plant in the cabbage and mustard family Brassicaceae. It is native to southern Europe, and cultivated throughout the temperate world.
This plant is easy to grow from seed and tends to naturalize. It is usually grown as a biennial, being sown one year to flower the next. It is suitable for cultivation in a shady or dappled area, or in a wildflower garden, and the flowers and dried siliques are often seen in flower arrangements. Numerous varieties and cultivars are available, of which the white-flowered L. annua var. albiflora and the variegated white L. annua var. albiflora 'Alba Variegata' have won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Lunaria annua is native to southern Europe from Spain to Romania, and has been introduced to many other parts of the world with temperate climates.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lunaria annua by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
