Saponaria officinalis L.

Saponaria officinalis L.

CARYOPHYLLACEAE

- Pink family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Saponaria officinalis L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 408 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Bouncingbet

English name: bouncing-bet

English name: common soapwort

French name: saponaire officinale

Italian name: Saponaria comune

German name: echtes Seifenkraut

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Lychnis saponaria Jessen
= Saponaria officinalis L. var. glaberrima Ser.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Saponaria officinalis L. var. glaberrima Ser.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Saponaria
Species:

Page counter: 1479 ( AVG: 221.24 / 219.911 )

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Saponaria officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Saponaria officinalis
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Saponaria officinalis
Credit: Photo by Mirna and Attilio Marzorati

Saponaria officinalis
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Saponaria officinalis
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

Saponaria officinalis
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester. - Not copyrighted image

Saponaria officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Saponaria officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Arco, Parco dell' Arciduca Alberto, TN, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Saponaria officinalis
Credit: Photo by Alfonso La Rosa

Saponaria officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Aquileia, ai margini dei campi coltivati nei pressi dell'abitato. , UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Saponaria officinalis
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Saponaria officinalis
Credit: Photo by Marinella Zepigi

Saponaria officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, ex ospedale psichiatrico, nei pressi del Dipartimento di Biologia. , TS, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Saponaria officinalis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Saponaria officinalis
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Saponaria officinalis
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Saponaria officinalis
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

Saponaria officinalis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Saponaria officinalis
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 73.

Saponaria officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Torri del Benaco, a nord della località Acque Fredde. , VR, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Saponaria officinalis
Credit: Photo by Mirna and Attilio Marzorati

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK)

Distributional map for Saponaria officinalis L.
Map for Saponaria officinalis L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Saponaria porrigens L. [256]
2) Saponaria pumilio (L.) Fenzl ex A. Braun [241]
3) Saponaria vaccaria L. [169]
4) Sapota zapotilla (Jacq.) Cov. [241]
5) Sarcocornia fruticosa (L.) A.J. Scott [excluded] [782]
6) Sarcogyne similis H. Magn. [237]
7) Sarracenia alata Alph. Wood [288]
8) Sarracenia oreophila (Kearney) Wherry [238]
9) Sarracenia purpurea L. var. stolonifera Macfarlane & D.W. Steckbeck [227]
10) Sasa pygmaea (Miq.) E.G. Camus [283]

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