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Lunaria

Lunaria (also known as Honesty, Moneyplant, and Satin Flower) is a biennial grown for its fruit, called silicles. These silicles are ornamental when dried. The plant may self seed or live for 3 years even though it is technically biennial. The flowers are showy fragrant reddish violet or purple and the leaves are broad and simple. Gardeners enjoy both the flowers and the seed pods, which are dried and used indoors during the winter.

Lunaria is a genus of most unusual plants, which add considerable interest to the perennial or mixed garden. The plants grow from two to three feet high and are erect branching plants. The plant grows in shade or sun in any moist garden soil.

Transplanting is difficult but the plant may become a weed
in some gardens. Hang the silicles upside down to dry.
The green outer covering peels off to reveal the silvery
translucent "silver dollars."