| Scientific Name: | Matthiola incana |
| Common Name: | stock |
| Family Name: | Brassicaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual, Biennial, Flowering cut plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Cut flower or foliage |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Yellow, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Silique, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves silky, oblong to elliptic, hairy, gray-green leaves to 10cm long. Flowers extremely fragrant, to 5cm wide cultivars both singles and doubles (petals ruffled), bloom in dense racemes. | |