Japanese Meadowsweet | Slide Mouse

Synonyms for the species name are spiraea bumalda burv.

Japanese meadowsweet. Fields roadsides waste areas gardens. Great smoky mountains national park identifies it as a targeted invasive plant. Japanese meadowsweet spiraea japonica are large dense shrubs with flower clusters that are attractive to butterflies. The plants database includes the following 2 subspecies of spiraea japonica.

It adapts well to most soil and climate types. Japanese meadowsweet subordinate taxa. Spiraea japonica commonly called japanese spirea is a dense upright mounded deciduous shrub that typically grows 4 6 tall with a slightly larger spread leaves to 3 long are oval and sharply toothed. The word aspirin is derived from spirin based on meadowsweet s scientific name spiraea the plant was used in folk medicine for cancer tumors rheumatism and as a diuretic.

And spiraea japonica var. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles. Ct ma me nh ri. The pink white or purple flowers grow in clusters mainly in early summer but repeat blooms often occur until fall.

Spiraea japonica the japanese meadowsweet japanese spiraea or korean spiraea is a plant in the family rosaceae. Native introduced native and introduced. Meadowsweet is a beautiful shrub generally blooming in spring although some varieties may bloom in summer. Japanese meadowsweet is found throughout the mid atlantic and in the southeast most commonly in the appalachian mountains.

Tiny pink flowers in flat topped clusters corymbs cover the foliage from late spring to mid summer with sparse and intermittent repeat bloom sometimes. It is very easy to care for and quite hardy. In the middle ages meadowsweet was known as meadwort because it was used to flavor mead an alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey and fruit juices. In 1838 salicylic acid first synthesized in the 1890s to make aspirin was isolated from the plant.