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#11. Honesty/ Silver Dollar Plant

Lunaria annua

Family:

Mustard Family

Habitat:

Open forests, roadsides

Characteristics:

1. Purple flowers with four petals bloom in April.

2. Leaf margins coarsely toothed.

3. Seed pods oval and flattened lending to the names money plant or silver dollar plant.

Uses or Importances:

1. Escaped garden flower.

2. Dried seed pods popular in floral arrangements.

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