{{Short description|Species of plant}} {{Speciesbox | image = The Botanical Magazine, Plate 29 (Volume 1, 1787).png | genus = Reseda | species = odorata | authority = L. }}

'''''Reseda odorata''''' is a species of flowering plant in the reseda family known by many common names, including '''garden mignonette'''<ref name=BSBI07>{{BSBI 2007 |access-date=2014-10-17 }}</ref><ref>{{PLANTS|id=REOD|taxon=Reseda odorata|accessdate=20 October 2015}}</ref> and '''common mignonette'''. It is probably native to the Mediterranean Basin, but it can sometimes be found growing in the wild as an introduced species in many parts of the world.<ref name=fna>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200009758 Flora of North America]</ref> These introductions are often garden escapees; the plant has long been kept as an ornamental plant for its fragrant flowers, the essential oil of which has been used in perfumes.<ref name=fna/> This is an annual herb, producing branching erect stems to 80 centimeters in maximum height. The inflorescence is a spike-like raceme of many flowers. The fragrant flower has six white to yellowish or greenish petals, the upper ones each divided into three narrow, finger-like lobes.<ref>{{Cite web| last = Hickman| first = James Craig| title = UC/JEPS: The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California| access-date = 2018-06-07| date = 1993| url = http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?6578,6581,6585}}</ref> At the center of the flower are up to about 25 stamens tipped with large dangling orange anthers.

==Common names==

Mignonette, Egyptian Mignonette.,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pirie, Mary|author-link=Mary Pirie|title=Flowers, Grasses, and Shrubs. A popular book on Botany. Illustrated|date=1860}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=OpEcLU8mbkEC&dq=reseda+odorata+egypt&pg=PA158]</ref> Sweet Reseda,<ref>{{Cite book| last = harrison| first = joseph| title = the floricultural cabinet| date = 1849}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=tjEFAAAAQAAJ&dq=reseda+odorata+egypt&pg=RA1-PA223]</ref> Egyptian Rocket <ref>{{Cite book| last = Loudon (Jane)| first = Mrs| title = The Ladies'flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals| date = 1840}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=-OdhAAAAcAAJ&dq=reseda+odorata+egypt&pg=PA89]</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{Taxonbar|from=Q159158}}

{{-}}

odorata Category:Plants described in 1759 Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Brassicales-stub}}