HONESTY

either of the two species of the genus Lunaria, of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). They are European annuals or biennials that are widely grown for their disklike, papery, seedpod partitions, used in dried flower arrangements. The best known species, also called moonflower, money plant, moonwort, or satinflower, as well as honesty (Lunaria annua), have four-petalled, reddish purple or white flower clusters that are borne in summer. It has become naturalized in some wooded parts of eastern North America. Perennial honesty (L. rediviva) has pointed oval seedpod partitions and pale purple flowers.