Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Spiraea salicifolia I,. Sp. PL 489. 1753
spiraea carpinifolia Wats. Dendr. pi. 66. 1823. Not S. carpimfolia Willd. 1809. Spiraea grandifiora I,odd. Bot. Cab. pi. 1988. 1833. Not S. grandiflora Sweet, 1830. Spiraea amena Raf. New Fl. 3 : 65. 1838.
A shrub, 1-2 m. high ; bark of the somewhat angled young twigs brown, finely puberulent, that of the old stems dark-gray ; petioles 2-6 mm. long, puberulent ; leaf-blades lance-oblong, broadest at the middle, acute at each end, sharply serrate, 3-7 cm. long, puberulent on the midrib and margins ; inflorescence a narrow panicle, 5-10 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, its branches puberulent ; hypanthium hemispheric, about 1 mm. deep, usually puberulent ; sepals ovate, acute ; petals pink, rounded-ovate, obtuse, about 2 mm. long ; follicles oblanceolate, glabrous, about 4 mm. long.
Type locality : Siberia.
Distribution : Native of Siberia and eastern Russia ; occasionally escaped from cultivation in the eastern states.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
