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Reseda odorata
Also called Sweet Mignonette, Bastard Rocket, Common Mignonette, Fragrant Mignonette, Sweet Reseda
Garden mignonette is a fragrant annual herb grown for its sweetly scented flower spikes, which are used in perfume. It grows best in cool to mild weather in sun or light shade, and it dislikes being transplanted, so sowing directly is easiest.
Reseda odorata is a species of flowering plant in the reseda family known by many common names, including garden mignonette and common mignonette. It is probably native to the Mediterranean Basin, but it can sometimes be found growing in the wild as an introduced species in many parts of the world. These introductions are often garden escapees; the plant has long been kept as an ornamental plant for its fragrant flowers, the essential oil of which has been used in perfumes. This is an annual herb, producing branching erect stems to 80 centimeters in maximum height. The inflorescence is a spike-like raceme of many flowers. The fragrant flower has six white to yellowish or greenish petals, the upper ones each divided into three narrow, finger-like lobes.
At the center of the flower are up to about 25 stamens tipped with large dangling orange anthers.
White upright mignonette · Yellow mignonette · Weld · Reseda minoica · Rampion mignonette · Reseda viridis · Mignonette
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Reseda odorata 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.
