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Common Name: Money Plant, Honesty
Scientific Name: Lunaria annua
Family: Brassicaceae
Saluda, North Carolina
April 13, 2002
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Old-fashioned garden plant, grown for silvery, translucent circles (about 1 1/4 inches across) that stay on flower stalks after seeds drop. Plants are 1 1/2 - 3 feet high, with coarse, heart-shaped, toothed leaves. Spring flowers resemble wild mustard blooms but are purple or white, not yellow. There is a form with variegated leaves. Plant in an out-of-the-way spot in poor soil or in a mixed flower bed where shining pods can be admired before they are picked for dry bouquets. Tough, persistent; can reseed and become weedy. [Bender, Steve, Southern Living Garden Book, The. Oxmoor House, Inc., Book Division of Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, 1998]
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