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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lunaria annua   FAMILY Brassicaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lunaria annua   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Lunaria annua ssp. annua

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Lunaria annua

 

COMMON NAME:
Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant


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image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_luan_001_lvd

        

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

JK Marlow    jkm120328_113

March    Pickens County    SC

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

JK Marlow    jkm120328_118

March    Pickens County    SC

Leaves cordate-based, triangular, and with coarse teeth, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

JK Marlow    jkm120328_121

March    Pickens County    SC

Petals 4, usually purple or lavender, obovate, much longer than sepals, per Flora of North America.

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

JK Marlow    jkm120328_124b

March    Pickens County    SC

Sepals cucullate [hood-like], two linear and two broadly oblong-elliptic, per Flora of North America.

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

Gill Newberry    gn04_lunaria_annua

April        

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

Gill Newberry    gn04_lunaria_flowers

April        

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

JK Marlow    jkm150605_134

June    Watauga County    NC

Glen Burnie Trail

Siliques unsegmented, 2cm+ wide, broadly rounded at both ends when mature, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

JK Marlow    jkm150605_136

June    Watauga County    NC

Glen Burnie Trail

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

Marian StClair    msc_3503

September    Greenville County    SC

image of Lunaria annua, Money Plant, Annual Honesty, Silver-dollar Plant

Marian StClair    msc_3505

September    Greenville County    SC

Called Money Plant because of the silvery septum left after fruit matures, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lunaria annua   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lunaria annua   FAMILY Brassicaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lunaria annua ssp. annua

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Lunaria annua

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3243

Forb
Biennial

Habitat: Escaped from cultivation around gardens, naturalizing in floodplains in suburban areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: southeast Europe

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & opposite or alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purple/ Lavender (rarely White)
Radially symmetrical
4 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens tetradynamous (2 short, 4 long)
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Silvery
Silicle

 

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