Meadowsweet Spirea Alba | Slide Mouse
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Meadowsweet spirea alba. The broadly oblong leaves are shiny green turning golden yellow in fall. Spiraea alba is a mounding deciduous shrub that grows to a height of 5. Common names are from state and federal lists. White meadowsweet is considered a shrub rather than a wildflower forb.
Shrub with numerous fine textured erect unbranched stems. The showy spiraea spp that are commonly cultivated as landscape plants have been introduced from the old world. They turn golden yellow in fall. Fruits mature in september.
Federal government or a state. This plant is listed by the u s. Alba white meadowsweet spiraea alba var. Meadowsweet is technically a shrub but often is mistaken for a wildflower.
Spiraea alba commonly known as meadowsweet white meadowsweet narrowleaf meadowsweet pale bridewort or pipestem is native to the wet soils of the allegheny mountains and other portions of eastern north america but is currently endangered in the state of missouri. Sometimes eastern meadowsweet is considered a variety of meadowsweet and it is referred to as spiraea alba latifolia. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location. It resembles steeplebush which may be growing along side it but has distinctly pink flowers and its leaves are silvery white on the underside.
From the image gallery. Tiny white or pinkish flowers are arranged in elongated terminal spikes. Spiraea septentrionalis is a frequently recognized taxon that in new england occurs in the higher appalachian mountains. Latifolia in its larger flowers and diminutive panicles.
The stems grow upright and become woody with age. Threatened and endangered information. Latifolia white meadowsweet legal status. It is said to differ from s.
Measurements on herbarium specimens showed that no differences exist in floral parts e g sepals petals anthers. Meadowsweet is pretty easy to identify when in bloom. It tends to grow in colonies. Spiraea alba commonly called meadowsweet is an upright deciduous shrub which grows up to 4 tall and features alternate narrow toothed green leaves and terminal cone shaped clusters 3 4 long of tiny white flowers that bloom in the summer.
It is naturalized in other parts of the world. It produces dense conical very showy clusters of white flowers in summer.