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Caryophyllaceae
Bouncing-bet
Saponaria officinalis
Also known as Soapwort, Crow soap, Wild sweet William, Lychnis officinalis
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Cottage Garden · Fragrant · Wildflower · Perennial · Pollinator · Pink Flowers · Medicinal · Border Plant · Summer Blooming
Bouncing-bet is a cheerful, fragrant perennial with clusters of pink or white flowers that bloom from mid-summer into fall, making it a lovely addition to cottage or wildflower gardens. It tolerates a wide range of soils and is drought-adaptable once established, needing only occasional watering. Deadhead spent blooms to extend flowering and divide clumps every 2-3 years to keep it from spreading too vigorously.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately; allow top inch of soil to dry between waterings · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5–7
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 5a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 18 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Purple
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Central European Rus
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Moths
Sources: trefle, usda
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