Perennial honesty

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Perennial Honesty

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Lunaria
Species: L. rediviva
Binomial name
Lunaria rediviva
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Perennial Honesty (Lunaria rediviva) is a tall (height about 1 m), hairy-stemmed perennial found throughout Europe in damp woods, and on lime. It has large, pointed oval leaves with marked serrations. The common name "Honesty" arose in the sixteenth century and may be due to the translucent seed-pods which are like flattened pea-pods and borne on the plant through winter.

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