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An ornamental plant featured in gardens, it is a shrub growing up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) tall with frothy, pompom-like clusters of snow-white flowers borne along arching branches that bloom in May in its native country, hence its common name. [4]
Spiraea / s p aɪ ˈ r iː ə /, [1] sometimes spelled spirea in common names, and commonly known as meadowsweets or steeplebushes, is a genus of about 80 to 100 species [2] of shrubs in the family Rosaceae. They are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with the greatest diversity in eastern Asia.
Growing to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall and broad, Spiraea thunbergii is a small, long-lived shrub with thin, flexible stems. The flowers are white, borne in abundance in spring and early summer. The alternate, simple, almost linear leaves are semi-deciduous.
Spiraea alba, commonly known as meadowsweet, [2] white meadowsweet, [3] narrowleaf meadowsweet, [4] pale bridewort, [5] or pipestem, [6] is native to the wet soils of the Allegheny Mountains and other portions of eastern North America, [7] but is currently endangered in the state of Missouri. It is naturalized in other parts of the world.
Spiraea nipponica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to the island of Shikoku, Japan. [1] Growing to 1.2–2.5 m (4–8 ft) tall and broad, it is a deciduous shrub with clusters of small, bowl-shaped white flowers in midsummer. [2] The specific epithet nipponica means "Japanese". [3]
Spiraea latifolia, commonly known as broadleaf meadowsweet, is a shrub in the family Rosaceae. It has often been treated as a variety of Spiraea alba (white or narrowleaf meadowsweet). [ 1 ] It is the primary host plant for Hemileuca lucina .
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.
This plant is a shrub growing one to three meters (3–10 feet) tall. It is clonal, with several cloned individuals growing in clumps. The leaves are variable in shape and size and may have smooth or toothed edges. The inflorescence is a dense corymb of many cream-white flowers, each