Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (25/04/2022) Botolphs Lane on verge not far entrance to Lancing College, Steyning, W Sussex. Perennial Honesty instead has white to pale lilac flowers and long, narrow elliptical fruits
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (25/04/2022) Botolphs Lane on verge not far entrance to Lancing College, Steyning, W Sussex. Has four anthers - you can just see them poking out.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (25/04/2022) Botolphs Lane on verge not far entrance to Lancing College, Steyning, W Sussex. Can be red, purple, pink or white. It's normally a garden plant but occasionally escapes.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (25/04/2022) Botolphs Lane on verge not far entrance to Lancing College, Steyning, W Sussex. It's very hairy! This one has seed pods lower down. Perennial Honesty instead has long narrow ones more like you'd expect from a Brassica.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (25/04/2022) Botolphs Lane on verge not far entrance to Lancing College, Steyning, W Sussex.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (25/04/2022) Botolphs Lane on verge not far entrance to Lancing College, Steyning, W Sussex. Leaves ace-of-spades shaped with side-lobes or two side bulges and usually well, but bluntly toothed. The one centre has evidently been eaten by caterpillars, but you can see the left hand lobe is present!
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (25/04/2022) Botolphs Lane on verge not far entrance to Lancing College, Steyning, W Sussex. A young seed pod - ytou can actually see some seeds developing inside.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (29/06/2022) Fulking, Henfield, W Sussex (footpath behind Shepherd & Dog). Classic seed pods now ripening and forming their ping-pong bat shape.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (29/06/2022) Fulking, Henfield, W Sussex (footpath behind Shepherd & Dog). The actual shape does vary a lot as does the numbers of seeds within (3 bulges here are the seeds inside).
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (29/06/2022) Fulking, Henfield, W Sussex (footpath behind Shepherd & Dog). The seed pods are strongly veined.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (20/06/2022) Tottington Drive, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (on verge). You can cldearly see the seeds inside this one.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (20/06/2022) Tottington Drive, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (on verge). What they look like as they age.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (20/06/2022) Tottington Drive, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (on verge). I think these are sun-stressed, but anyway are gradually going over and will eventually release the seeds.
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (20/06/2022) Tottington Drive, Small Dole, Henfield, W Sussex (on verge).
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (06/09/2021) Henfield Road, right hand side, just up from Small Dole Stores en route to Henfield, W Sussex. This is what they look like when they are going over. You can see why the species name is "Lunaria" - as in "moon".
Annual Honesty (Lunaria annua) (06/09/2021) Henfield Road, right hand side, just up from Small Dole Stores en route to Henfield, W Sussex. They make lovely additions to flower arrangements.
