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Spiraea plants are hardy, deciduous-leaved shrubs. The leaves are simple and usually short stalked, and are arranged in a spiralling, alternate fashion. In most species, the leaves are lanceolate (narrowly oval) and about 2.5 to 10 centimetres (0.98 to 3.94 in) long.
Spiraea douglasii is a woolly shrub growing 0.91–1.83 metres (3–6 feet) tall from rhizomes, forming dense riverside thickets. [6] The leaves are 2.5–10.2 centimetres (1–4 inches) long and toothed towards the tips. They are alternately arranged, and the undersides are whitish with prominent veins.
Spiraea tomentosa grows to up to four feet high and prefers moist to wet soil and full sun. It blooms in summer. It blooms in summer. Each tiny, pink flower is about 1/16 of an inch wide and arranged in narrow, pyramid-shaped flowerheads that grow up to eight inches long.
Spiraea corymbosa f. lucida (Douglas ex Greene) Zabel Spiraea lucida , the shiny-leaf meadowsweet , is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae , native to western Canada as far as Saskatchewan, and the northwestern United States as far as the Dakotas.
Symptoms to note: Bee stings cause moderate pain, which should subside within a few hours. All insect stings can cause life-threatening allergic reactions, and bee stings are no exception.
Spiraea salicifolia, the bridewort, willow-leaved meadowsweet, spice hardhack, or Aaron's beard, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. [2] A shrub, it is native to east-central Europe, Kazakhstan, all of Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia, northern China, Korea, and Japan, and it has been widely introduced to the rest of Europe and to eastern North America. [1]
Spiraea chamaedryfolia is a shrub reaching a height of 1–1.5 metres (3 ft 3 in – 4 ft 11 in). Branchlets are brownish or red-brown. Leaves are simple, oblong or lance-shaped, toothed on the edges, 40–60 millimetres (1.6–2.4 in) long and 10–30 millimetres (0.39–1.18 in) wide, with a petiole of 4–7 mm.
When deadheading mums, trim off the spent flower and its stem down to the next leaf or node. Snipping off only the spent flower at the base of the bloom can leave an ugly, pointy stem sticking up.