| Botanical name: |
Lunaria annua L. |
| Common
name: |
money plant; annual honesty |
| Group: |
dicot |
| Family: |
Brassicaceae |
| Growth
Type: |
forb/herb |
| Duration: |
annual; biennial |
| Origin: |
introduced |
| Plant
height: |
up to 3' |
| Foliage: |
alternate leaved, scarcely hairy, with triangular or heart-shaped lives; short-stalked or stalkless |
| Flower
color: |
flowers on racemes, flowers 3/4", purple |
| Fruit: |
fruit is broadly elliptic, resembling a silver dollar |
| Flowering/fruiting time |
early to mid summer |
| Habitat: |
moist or mesic soils |
| Range
in
New Jersey: |
unknown; author notes finding it escaped in Cumberland County |
| Heritage ranking if any: |
n/a |
| Distribution |
 |
| Misc.: |
Garden escape. Can be confused with Dame's Rocket, Hesperis martonalis. |
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Sources
**USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 572. |
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