Soapwort Gentian
Gentiana saponaria
Soapwort gentian bears clusters of blue, nearly closed bottle flowers in fall along moist meadows and streambanks, a beautiful, bumblebee-pollinated native for consistently moist, sunny to part-shaded ground.
- Family
- Gentianaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- blue, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds, songbirds
- Landscape uses
- border, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, DC, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MI, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV
Related native plants
More Gentiana species
- Bottle Gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)
- Plain Gentian (Gentiana alba)
- Meadow Bottle Gentian (Gentiana clausa)
- Narrow-leaved Gentian (Gentiana linearis)
- Closed Red Gentian (Gentiana rubricaulis)