Annual Honesty

Annual honesty (Lunaria annua), native to Europe, is an annual or biennial (takes 2 years to complete life cycle) flowering plant. Called Silver Dollar, or Money Plant, these plants can grow up to 3 ft tall. The leaves of an annual honesty are coarse and oval shaped and the flowers range in color from white to pink to purple. The flowers are replaced in midsummer by translucent, round, flat seed pods that look like silvery coins. Lunaria means "moon," another reference to the shiny inner wall of the seedpod.