Saponaria officinalis

 
Common soapwort, Bouncing bet;
 
Glabrous erect perennial herb up to 1 m tall; leaves ovate lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, strongly 3-nerved, acuminate; flowers white or pinkish, 2.5-4 cm across, in dense terminal corymbs; bracts lanceolate; calyx tubular, 16-20 mm long, green or tinged purple, obscurely veined, lobes ovate; petals with emarginate tip, linear appendages at the base of limb; capsule 1.5 cm long, cylndric-ovoid. 
  
 
 
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Caryophyllaceae Week: Saponaria officinalis from Kashmir: Saponaria officinalis L., Sp. Pl. 1: 408. 1753.
syn:: Lychnis officinalis (L.) Scop.
Common names: Common soapwort, bouncing-bet
Glabrous erect perennial herb up to 1 m tall; leaves ovate lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, strongly 3-nerved, acuminate; flowers white or pinkish, 2.5-4 cm across, in dense terminal corymbs; bracts lanceolate; calyx tubular, 16-20 mm long, green or tinged purple, obscurely veined, lobes ovate; petals with emarginate tip, linear appendages at the base of limb; capsule 1.5 cm long, cylndric-ovoid. 
Photographed from Kashmir
 
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Amarnath Yatra : ID Requested (NSJ-02 29/08/2013) : Attachments (3). 4 posts by 3 authors.
ID Requested. A roadside shrub (Around 2 feet high)
Location - Pahalgam, Roadside
Altitude - 6000' (Approx)
Date - Aug 09, 2013
A Silene species, perhaps S. armeria
Saponaria officinalis, a cultivation escape.

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Saponaria officinalis from Institute of Advance Studies Shimla
Pls Validate
Good photographs ...
 
 
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Caryophyllaceae ATJULY2016/02 : 9 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2)
Kindly identify
May be Caryophyllaceae memmber
Shimla
June, 2016 
Thanks, ... Cultivated or wild ?
Was growing in Shimla Water Catchment Reserve Forest just 100 m below the highway. May be wild or garden escape.
Thank you, ...  It matches 100% with Saponaria officinalis.
Can it be wild or garden escape???
Probably an escape ..., 
I have seen this growing near a helipad (surrounded by many Hotels) in Pelling (Sikkim), and nowhere else...!!
Saponaria officinalis.
 
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SK1268t 08 JUL 2018 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5)- around 600 kb each. 
Location:  Kalimpong, WB, India
Date: 10 May 2018
Altitude: 4600 ft.
Habit : Cultivated
I think this comfortably fits into Saponaria officinalis...
Saponaria officinalis L.  


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