Thread: Plant ID please
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Old 09-04-2012, 02:21 PM
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I have these growing all over the garden, but don't know their name. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
Honesty, Lunaria annua. The flowers are followed by flat coin-like seed pods which, when they lose their two outer skins, remain as a fine silver membrane, and it's these that they're mainly grown for.

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