seed pod ID please.

Hi all,
This seed pod is from my mums and she thinks it may be a herb of some sort. I'm not sure. Any ideas ?
gazania

 

Maybe a wallflower?

 

Hi Stephen, could well be but, I think my pods have much more of a point to the end of them.
gazania

 

You might be right, maybe it's a different type of Erysimum.. I can't think of many plants with that whorl arrangement.

 

The plant was upright, about 1 1/2-2ft high. It had no leaves to identify it, and maybe 10 of these branches with the seed pods.
gazania

 

My first thought was oil-seed rape but my second one was erysimum Bowles' Mauve.

 

Here is a pic of the seeds. About 10 to a pod, round and brown. Time to check out the seedsite. This one plant was in a pot and mum says I bought it for her.
edit: closest match I got was either some sort of sweet pea, or Aubretia. Both have similar pod shapes, and round brown seed balls.
edit: it's not aubretia, I see that is quite a small plant, and the plant in the pot is much taller.
gazania

 

sweet pea pods are quite thick in comparison to these. Your pods are really quite slim.. I'm sure someone will shine a light on it.

 

Hi Stephen, that's what I thought. Sweetpeas are wider and the seeds aren't set in the pod the same. I'm intrigued now. Hope it gets identified or it will be a case of plant it and see.
gazania

 

did you find it in your garden/on the ground, get it swapped or pull it off the plant?

 

It is a plant in a pot gone to seed that I don't recall buying or planting up. The pod is one of many on an upright stem about a foot or so high. Mum reckons I gave it to her so it may well be something I have sown and given to her. I can't put a photo up of the plant as I don't live near mum. I just took a branch of it.
gazania

 

I think the give-away is that it isn't a summer flowering plant so that rules out sweet pea. It's either a winter or Spring flowering plant so Erysimum seems quite likely

 

Stephen, looking at the seeds and pods again I think you are most probably right. At some point in the year I must have bought mum a wallflower in a pot ! She says I gave it to her. But somewhere in the back of my mind I'm sure I planted wallflower seeds but I have no sign of them ? Either way, I think you were right from the beginning so many thanks. I shall keep the seeds to plant next spring.
gazania

 

Not sure where you are in N Wales, but I am a very frequent visitor to Llandudno (its my second home!) and often there Wallflowers have clad the cliffsides, walls around the town... my saying is, if it's not on the cliffs of Llandudno it's probably not been discovered yet!

 

Hi Stephen, I am 30 miles from Llandudno. Er . . . I hate to throw a spanner in the works but mum reckons the plant didn't flower ! My wife also says we have never grown wallflowers for my mum !!! This isn't going to be solved 100%
gazania