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Soapwort - Saponaria officinalis

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Soapwort Soapwort - Saponaria officinalis dylan Bristol 4 Aug 2022, 11:14 a.m. 3 Aug 2022, 6:10 p.m.
Soapwort Soapwort - Saponaria officinalis dylan Bristol 4 Aug 2022, 11:14 a.m. 3 Aug 2022, 6:09 p.m.
Soapwort Soapwort - Saponaria officinalis dylan Bristol 4 Aug 2022, 11:14 a.m. 3 Aug 2022, 6:10 p.m.
Soapwort Soapwort - Saponaria officinalis dylan Bristol 4 Aug 2022, 11:14 a.m. 3 Aug 2022, 6:10 p.m.
Soapwort Soapwort - Saponaria officinalis dylan Bristol 4 Aug 2022, 11:14 a.m. 3 Aug 2022, 6:10 p.m.
Soapwort Soapwort - Saponaria officinalis dylan Bristol 4 Aug 2022, 11:14 a.m. 3 Aug 2022, 6:10 p.m.

Species Description

Widespread and fairly frequent in the Southern half of the UK, being more scattered in the North. Habitat includes: hedge banks, quarries, roadside verges, railway banks, tips, wasteland, stream-sides, damp woods etc. Growing habit: Rhizomatous Perennial. Height: Up to 90 cm. Flowers: June to September.

Stace 4:

Saponaria officinalis L. - Soapwort.

Glabrous perennial with erect or ascending stems to 90cm; leaves ovate to elliptic, the largest >5cm; flowers in rather compact corymbose cymes, about 2.5cm across; calyx glabrous; 15-20mm; 2n=28. Archaeophyte-denizen; grown in gardens and a common escape and throwout on waste ground, roadsides and grassy places, often flore pleno, often well naturalised and perhaps native in South West England; throughout most of British Isles but rare in North Scotland; Europe.

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Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora

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