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Itea is a genus of about 10 species of shrubs and small trees, commonly called sweetspires. The leaves are alternate. Flowers are small, with 5 sepals and 5 petals, borne in racemes or spikes. The genus is native to eastern Asia, with one deciduous species from eastern North America.
[1] [2] Small shrubs, less than 2 m (6.6 ft) tall are sometimes termed as subshrubs. Many botanical groups have species that are shrubs, and others that are trees and herbaceous plants instead. Some define a shrub as less than 6 m (20 ft) and a tree as over 6 m. Others use 10 m (33 ft) as the cutoff point for classification. [2]
Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby spice'. Clethra is a genus of flowering shrubs or small trees described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753. [1] [6]Clethra is one of two genera in the family Clethraceae (the other being Purdiaea).
The Clethraceae are a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, composed of two genera, Clethra and Purdiaea, with approximately 75 species. [2] They are native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Asia and the Americas, with one species also on Madeira.
Itea ilicifolia, the holly-leaved sweet spire, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iteaceae, native to western China. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3–5 m (10–16 ft) tall by 3 m (10 ft) broad, with glossy holly-like leaves and fragrant drooping racemes of greenish-white flowers, 30 cm (12 in) long, in summer and autumn. [ 1 ]
Iteaceae is a flowering plant family of trees and shrubs native to the eastern USA, southeastern Africa, and south and Southeastern Asia.Some older taxonomic systems place the genus Itea in the family Grossulariaceae.
Clethra acuminata, the mountain pepper bush, is a shrub native to the Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States. [3] It has been reported from the states of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, primarily from deciduous forests at elevations of 500–1,400 m (1,600–4,600 ft).
Itea may refer to: Itea, a genus of plants Itea ilicifolia, holly-leaved sweetspire; Itea virginica, Virginia sweetspire; Places in Greece (Ἰτέα): Itea, Phocis, a town and a municipality in the southeastern part of Phocis, on the Gulf of Corinth; Itea, Evros, a village in the southeastern part of the Evros regional unit