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Commonly known as “sweet mignonette” and cultivated for its strongly fragrant flowers. Several varieties are recognised. The plant parts are used for the alleviation of pain and relief from irritation. It yields an oil which is used for the manufacture of cosmetics.
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Description
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An erect to decumbent annual, up to 45 cm tall. Stem glabrous to pilose. Leaves 2.5-7 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm broad; lower leaves entire, lanceolate to elliptic, the upper ternate, with a large median lobe; midrib and veins pilose. Flowers fragrant, yellowish-white, in axillary and terminal racemes, up to 50 cm long; bracts c. 3 mm long, linear. Pedicel 6-7 mm long. Sepals 2-3 mm long, lanceolate to subulate, unequal. Posterior petal 9-13-lobed; appendage c. the size of the petal or larger, suborbiculate, margin fimbriate. Capsule subglobose. Seeds black, glaucous.
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Description
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Herbs usually annual, to 40 cm tall, glabrous. Stem branched. Leaves subsessile, spatulate or lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, entire or toothed to parted, papery. Flowers in terminal racemes; white or light yellow, or orange-red when cultivated, very fragrant. Sepals 6, narrowly spatulate, 2.5-4 mm, shorter than pedicel. Petals 6, clawed at base, lower 2 entire, lateral 2 digitate, upper 2 digitate with few segments and equaling sepals. Stamens 17-20; filaments subulate. Carpels 3. Capsule pendulous, subglobose or urceolate, 3-angled, ca. 1 cm. Seeds black, shiny, 2-2.5 mm; testa rugose. 2n = 12.
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Distribution
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Distribution: A native of N. Africa and naturalised in E. & C. Europe.
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: April-May.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Cultivated for ornament. Shanghai Shi, Taiwan, Zhejiang (Hangzhou Shi) [native to S Greece (Gavdos Island) and NE Libya; widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere].
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