Rock Soapwort
Saponaria ocymoides L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 19 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Caryophyllaceae
Also called Tumbling-Ted, Rock soapwort
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. & SC. EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 23 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Saponaire de Montpellier, Saponaire rose
- Italian
- Saponaria di roccia
- Czech
- mydlice bazalkovitá
- German
- Rotes Seifenkraut, Kleines Seifenkraut, Rotes Polster-Seifenkraut
- Estonian
- basiilikulehine seebilill
- Dutch
- Muurzeepkruid, Rotszeepkruid, muurzeepkruid
- Swedish
- liten såpnejlika, Liten såpnejlika
- Finnish
- kivikkosuopayrtti, Kivikkosuopayrtti
- Russian
- Мыльнянка базиликолистная
- Lithuanian
- Bazilikinis putoklis
- Japanese
- ヒメサボンソウ
- Danish
- Lav sæbeurt
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Saponaria ocymoides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.