Spiraea tomentosa - (image 1 of 6)
Taxonomy
Family: Rosaceae
Habitat
Acidic habitats, including swamps and wet meadows. The plants in these photographs were growing in a beaver meadow.
Associates
Distribution
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick west to Quebec and MN, south to NC, TN, and AR.
Morphology
Sparsely branching woody shrub to 1.2 m. Leaves alternate, simple, finely serrate, prominently veined and densely tomentose below. Flowers in a terminal, elongate, branched panicle; sepals reflexed after anthesis; petals pink or rarely white, 3-4 mm wide; hypanthium tomentose; ovary superior. Fruit a pubescent follicle.
Notes
Flowers mid June to mid September
Wetland indicator: Facultative Wetland
A very showy plant, particularly when abundant.
References
Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of
Northeastern United States
and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY
Swink, F. and G. Wilhelm. 1994. Plants of the Chicago Region.
Indiana Academy of Science. The Morton Arboretum. Lisle, Illinois.
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