• Saponaria caespitosa (Alpine soapwort) pink flowers
  • Saponaria caespitosa (Alpine soapwort) in natural habitat
  • Saponaria caespitosa (Alpine soapwort) in rock crevice
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Saponaria caespitosa | Alpine soapwort

ARCHIVED PLANT. This page serves as reference only. We are no longer propagating this plant.

Alpine soapwort is a vigorous, low-growing evergreen perennial for the rock garden. Sweet pink flowers hover over the carpet of short straight leaves in early summer.

Happiest in sunny, limestone scree. Found growing naturally in crevices of the Pyrenees.

Zones: 3 to 8
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Type: Perennial
Height: 1 to 3 in.
Spread: 12 to 18 in.
Exposure: full sun 
Soil: dry, rocky, well-drained
Bloom Time: May to June
Native Range: Central Pyrenees

Special Characteristics
  • Groundcover
image credits

manfred.sause@volloeko.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Isidre blanc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
manfred.sause@volloeko.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Saponaria caespitosa (Alpine soapwort) pink flowers
Saponaria caespitosa (Alpine soapwort) in natural habitat
Saponaria caespitosa (Alpine soapwort) in rock crevice

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Saponaria caespitosa | Alpine soapwort

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