Those four petals can fool you. In a pot or along a warm wall, Matthiola opens in mauve, lilac, or white, with the soft face people link to violets. Wrong family. Its flower follows the mustard blueprint: four petals set in a cross, four sepals, and six stamens, often in the tetradynamous arrangement of four long and two short.Taxonomy matters here. Matthiola sits in Brassicaceae, the family that ...More