Taxon: Saponaria officinalis L.

• the 25 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CO*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• bouncing-bet   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• common soapwort   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• soapwort   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• fei zao cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• saponaire officinale   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• echtes Seifenkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• sabonsō   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• binupul   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:127) – Transcribed Korean
  
• myl'njanka lekarstvennaja   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• såpnejlika   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; F NAmer)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Dict Econ Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; F NAmer)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Glea Cron ed2; F NAmer)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Saponaria officinalis from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.]
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• also cultivated

References:

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• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Angely, J. A. 1965. Flora analitica do Parana.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Burbidge, N. T. & M. Gray. 1970. Flora of the Australian Capital Territory.
• Cabrera, A. L. & E. M. Zardini. 1978. Manual de la flora de los alrededores de Buenos Aires.
• Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965–1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984. Med-Checklist. 1:245.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
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• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
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• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:127.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• Munz, P. A. 1974. A flora of southern California.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir.
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• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Saponaria officinalis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Saponaria officinalis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Saponaria officinalis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Saponaria officinalis var. glaberrima Ser.
  

Check other web resources for Saponaria officinalis L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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