Photos: Lisa Aherne Co.Limerick

Honesty Lunaria annua Family: Brassicaceae Flowering: April-June. Biennial. Garden escape. Introduced. Purple flowers, unscented, 4-petalled. Occasionally white. Distinctive round, flat, silvery fruit. Long-stalked, toothed, hairy, heart-shaped basal leaves. Stem leaves stalkless, opposite. Erect growth habit. Height: To 1.5m. Occasional garden escape, waste ground, roadsides, woods. Similar: Dame's-violet, Hesperis matronalis

    
Above: Honesty. White form 2008, Honesty seedheads. September 2007. Photos J.Seawright