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Lunaria annua |
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| Synonym(s) |
Lunaria biennis |
| Common name |
honesty; moneyplant |
| Family |
brassicaceae |
| Life cycle |
biennial |
| Flowers |
purple (April) |
| Size |
2' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
From seed  |
Germinate at room temperature. Self-seeds in our garden.
detailed seed-starting info below
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| Seed ripens | late July |
Plenty of purple flowers just when the garden really gets in gear in mid-spring, followed by silvery papery coin-shaped seedpods. Biennial: new plants grow in fall from seeds dropped in summer, and flower the following spring.
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list One or more images of this plant are included in my stock photo catalog About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Lunaria annua
- Seed from '11 trade for 'Barnsley House'. Baggy 70F (100%G, 4-7d)
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