Moricandia Species, Purple Mistress, Violet Cabbage

Moricandia arvensis is one of the most common wild plants that we can found everywhere. It supports prolongated dry conditions, gypsifero...Read Moreus soils, full sun, wind, pisses from dogs and cats, and it gift us a sea of pale lilac flowers in spring, but it't flowering in less quantity over all the year, even in winter. It's attractive to butterflies and bees. The leaves also attract many other nice insects such as shield bugs. The plant is perennial and if you give it a bit of humidity it will grow with bigger fleshy leaves giving a good glaucous green sensation. In my zone nobody cultivate this plant but I think that it have a good garden potential, I cultivate it since four years ago and it's very good, and not self-sow invading the garden (at least in my garden).