Annual Honesty, Satin-flower or Silver Dollar

Annual Honesty, Satin-flower    or Silver Dollar

Lunaria annua

Mustard Family - Brassicaceae

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Native to Europe and naturalized in North America. Photographed - early June at Eagle Lake

An upright (16 to 24 inches tall) herb with a loose terminal cluster of pink, 4-petalled flowers (about 1 inch wide). Seed pods flattened and expanded to form a thin round to oval disk.

Leaves alternate with lower ones triangular-shaped with a broad (3 to 5 inch wide) heart shaped base, bluntly toothed, velvety feeling and a long petiole.