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Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) is a perennial, 30-70 cm high. Soapwort has creeping, highly branched rhizomes up to 1 cm thick. The stems are numerous, erect. The leaves are simple, opposite, usually without stipules. The flowers are bisexual, collected in loose corymbose-paniculate inflorescences. The petals are white or pink, sometimes with a lilac hue, with a long fingernail. Flowers are pollinated only by butterflies. The fruit is an oblong-ovoid, single-nested capsule opening with denticles. Seeds are numerous, small, almost black. The plant blooms in June-August. Seeds ripen in September.