Soap Plant (Chlorogalum pomeridianum var. pomeridianum) Login         


        Description
  • Height 2 - 8 ft.
  • EW Bloom May - Jun
  • Basal leaves are long and have wavy margins.
  • Flowers are delicate and open in the late afternoon and evening.
  • A fibrous bulb sometimes protrudes from the ground.
  • It's found in open, sunny areas, including on trail sides.
  • CA native
  • Limited to California and southwest Oregon.
  • AKA Common Soaproot, Wavyleaf Soap Plant
  • Agave Family (Agavaceae)



Fragrant flowers have 6 narrow, white segments (tepals). 6 tall yellow or purple-tipped stamens reach up from the center.



Flowers attach to a long branching stalk, each blooming for only one day.



Leaves grow to 18 inches long, have wavy margins and a rather straight center vein. They mostly lie along the ground.

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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 ...

Here is the classic Soap Plant look - long narrow wavy leaves running almost 2 feet along the ground, radiating from the root system. Exposure to s ...

Mule deer, squirrels, rodents and rabbits eat new leaves in early spring - look for clipped tips.

The elusive, photogenic, fragrant flowers are worth looking for, but each flower only blooms once in the late afternoon, wilting by the next day. 6 ...

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]]. ...