Saponaria

Accepted species 18 Documented here 9 Family Caryophyllaceae

Accepted species 18 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Saponaria officinalis L. 3,596 documented
Saponaria ocymoides L. 323 documented
Saponaria pumila Janch. 44 documented
Saponaria sicula Raf. 14 documented
Saponaria glutinosa M.Bieb. 9 documented
Saponaria bellidifolia Sm. 5 documented
Saponaria caespitosa DC. 5 documented
Saponaria calabrica Guss. 4 documented
Saponaria lutea L. 4 documented
Saponaria prostrata Willd. 1 below the evidence gate
Saponaria aenesia Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Saponaria griffithiana Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Saponaria gypsacea Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Saponaria orientalis L. 0 below the evidence gate
Saponaria pumilio Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Saponaria spathulifolia (Fenzl) Vved. 0 below the evidence gate
Saponaria subrosularis Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Saponaria suffruticosa Nábělek 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.