Mignonette Family:-

Mignonette Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Loosestrife to Olive Wild Flower Families Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Corn Mignonette

(Rampion mignonette)

Reseda phyteuma

June onwards

An annual or biennial herb found naturalised in arable fields, and occurring as a casual on waste ground. It arises from wool shoddy and grain. Lowland. Use as plant in Green Roof or as House Plant.

Flower from Westwell in Kent on 29 August

Flowers from Westwell in Kent on 29 August

Foliage from Westwell in Kent on 29 August

Form from Westwell in Kent on 29 August

Weld

Reseda luteola

June-September

A robust biennial herb which typically occurs on neutral or base-rich soils on roadsides, waste ground and marginal land, in brick yards, gravel-pits and urban demolition sites, and, less commonly, arable or grassy areas. Generally lowland, but reaching 400 m on a roadside N. of Shap Summit (Westmorland).

Flower July

Flowers 23 June

Foliage from Jervaux Abbey in June

Form from Jervaux Abbey in June

White Mignonette

Reseda alba

June onwards

An annual or perennial herb, usually a grain, wool or bird-seed alien, but sometimes a garden escape, found in a range of man-made habitats including roadsides, railway banks, cultivated land, docklands and waste ground. Lowland.

Wild Mignonette

Reseda lutea

June onwards

A biennial or perennial herb of well-drained soils in open habitats, occurring on waste ground and roadside verges, in marginal grassland, disused railway land, quarries and arable land, in disturbed chalk and limestone grassland and on fixed sand dunes. Generally lowland, but reaching 440 m near Stainmore (Westmorland).

Flower May

Flowers July

Foliage July

Form