Caryophyllaceae
Creeping baby's-breath
Gypsophila repens
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Genus
- Gypsophila
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Common names
By language (16)
- arz
- جيبسوفيلا ريبينز
- Chinese
- 匍生丝石竹, 匍生石头花
- Czech
- Šater plazivý
- Dutch
- Kruipend gipskruid
- English
- Creeping baby's-breath
- Estonian
- Roomav kipslill
- Finnish
- Mätäsharso
- French
- Gypsophile rampante
- German
- Kriechendes Gipskraut, Kriech-Gipskraut
- hsb
- Łažawa łyšćica
- Hungarian
- Kúszó fátyolvirág
- Macedonian
- Ползечка стрнишница
- Polish
- Łyszczec rozesłany, Gipsówka rozesłana
- Russian
- Качим ползучий, Гипсолюбка ползучая, Гипсофила ползучая
- Slovenian
- Plazeča sadrenka
- Swedish
- Hängslöja
Synonyms
- Gypsophila adscendens Jacq.
- Gypsophila alpestris Jord. & Fourr.
- Gypsophila dubia Willd.
- Gypsophila erectiuscula Jord. & Fourr.
- Gypsophila repens f. pienina Zapał.
- Gypsophila repens var. adscendens Hampe
- Gypsophila repens var. alpestris (Jord. & Fourr.) Rouy & Foucaud
- Gypsophila repens var. alpigena Brügger
- Gypsophila repens var. archetypa Murr
- Gypsophila repens var. dioica Beauverd
- Gypsophila repens var. montana Rchb.
- Gypsophila repens var. prostrata Borbás ex Hallier
- Gypsophila repens var. pygmaea Beauverd
- Gypsophila sabauda Jord. & Fourr.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
Photo: Ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Opioła Jerzy, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Opioła Jerzy, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Guérin Nicolas, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ghislain118, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Lazaregagnidze, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.