Kingdom - Plantae, Unranked - Angiosperms, Order - Brassicales, Family- Resedaceae, Genus - Reseda, Species - Reseda alba, Reseda lutea, Reseda complicata, Reseda glaucous, Reseda odorata, Reseda phyteuma, Reseda scoparia... About 50-70 species.
Latin name Reseda means "to calm or appease," and refers to the fact that the plant was employed by the Romans in treating bruises.
It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it can be found in parts of the Americas and Australia. It is also cultivated as an ornamental plant for its spikelike racemes of fragrant white flowers. This is an annual or perennial herb growing up to a meter tall. The leaves are divided deeply into many narrow lobes. The inflorescence, which may take up most of the upper stem, is densely packed with many white flowers. Each flower has five or six petals, each of which is divided into three long, narrow lobes, making the raceme appear frilly. The fruit is a nearly rectangular four-angled capsule up to 1.4 centimeters in length.
Fragrance may be found on http://www.roger-gallet.com/accueil.php?lang=en
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