Common soapwort
Saponaria officinalis
In Dutch: Zeepkruid
PerennialsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 40 to 70 cm
- Spread
- 10 to 50 cm per clump, keeps spreading
- Full grown after
- 2 to 5 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Dry to moist, preferably chalky
- Water
- Average: dry and moist soil both suit it
- Maintenance
- Low: keep the runners in check
- Flowers
- July to September, pale pink or white
- For bees
- Little: some nectar, July to September
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn: the plant dies back above ground in winter
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Mildly: mainly the rhizome and the seed
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €2.45 to €4.09 each, in a small pot
- Price, grown
- About €6.50 per plant in a larger pot, minimum order 10
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to October
- Flower
- July to September
- Fruit
- no noticeable fruit