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Soapwort

Saponaria officinalis

2,459Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
103Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb1
Mar9
Apr66
May105
Jun167
Jul590
Aug957
Sep414
Oct107
Nov12
Dec6

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England169
2Suffolk England96
3Norfolk England85
4Lincolnshire England65
5Cambridgeshire England63
6Kent England62
7Essex England58
8Somerset England56
9Oxfordshire England45
10Cornwall England43
11Surrey England40
12Gwynedd Wales37
13Devon England36
14Dorset England34
15York England34
723 England23 Scotland67 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 103 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,459
Peak month
August
Counties with records
103
Scientific name
Saponaria officinalis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,424
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Saponaria
Name with authority
Saponaria officinalis L.
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q156841 · GBIF 3085360