Reseda odorata L.

Common Mignonette

A low-growing annual. Leaves elliptic or spoon-shaped, sometimes 3-lobed. Flowers highly fragrant, long-lasting, yellowish-white; spring to summer.

N Africa

Grown as a range of cultivars and seed mixes, often for cut flowers.

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Resedaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Rosanae
order      Brassicales
family       Resedaceae
genus        Reseda L.