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Soap Plant does well in open, disturbed, sunny areas, so you'll often find them alongside trails.
It is a [[perennial]], regrowing leaves and flowe ...
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Here is the classic Soap Plant look - long narrow wavy leaves running almost 2 feet along the ground, radiating from the root system.
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Mule deer, squirrels, rodents and rabbits eat new leaves in early spring - look for clipped tips.
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The elusive, photogenic, fragrant flowers are worth looking for, but each flower only blooms once in the late afternoon, wilting by the next day.
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If you look closely, one whorl of 3 petals is on top of a second whorl of 3 [[sepals]] that look the same. Collectively, they're called [[tepals]].
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