Description
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Shrubs 1–1.5 m tall. Branchlets brownish or red-brown, turning gray-brown when old, slender, sometimes flexuose, slightly angled, glabrous; buds long ovoid, with 2 scales, glabrous or sparsely puberulous on scale margins, apex acuminate. Petiole 4–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely pilose; leaf blade broadly ovate, 2–4.5 × 1–3 mm, tufted pubescent in vein axils abaxially, glabrous adaxially, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin minutely sharply serrate and doubly serrate (or on sterile branchlets sometimes incised doubly serrate), apex acute. Racemes pedunculate, umbellate, 2–4 × 2–3 mm, 5–12-flowered; rachis and pedicels glabrous; pedicels 6–10 mm; bracts linear, 2–3 mm, glabrous, caducous. Flowers 6–9 mm in diam. Hypanthium broadly campanulate, glabrous abaxially. Sepals ovate-triangular, 1.5–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm, reflexed in fruit, apex acute. Petals white, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 2.5–3.5 × 2–3 mm, glabrous, base shortly clawed, apex obtuse or somewhat incised. Stamens 35–50, longer than petals. Disk undulate annular. Carpels puberulous on adaxial suture; styles shorter than stamens. Follicles erect, appressed pubescent; styles terminal on adaxial side, slightly spreading. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Jul–Sep.
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Distribution
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Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Shanxi, Xinjiang [Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia; Europe].
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Habitat
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Slopes in mixed forests, forest clearings; 600--1000 m.
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Synonym
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Spiraea ussuriensis Pojarkova.
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Comprehensive Description
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Spiraea ulmifolia Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2. 1 : 349. 1772
spiraea chamaedryfoUa Jacq. Hort. Vind. 2 ; 66. 1772. Not 5. chamaedryfolia Iv. 1753.
A shrub, about 2 m. high ; bark of the young twigs light-brown or yellowish ; that of the previous season's growth rather dull, more or less exfoliating, and of the old stems brown ; petioles slender, 5-10 mm. long ; leaf-blades thin, oval or ovate, 3-5 cm. long, acute at both ends, sharply and more or less dOubly serrate, green on both sides, sparingly hairy or glabrous except the margins ; inflorescence a rather dense, rounded corymb ; pedicels 1.5-2 cm. long, glabrous; hypanthium campanulate, glabrous, fully 1.5 mm. deep ; sepals glabrous, nearly 2 mm. long, ovate, acute, in fruit more or less reflexed.; petals white, orbicular or rounded-ovate, about 5 mm. long ; follicles glabrous, oblong, about 3 mm. long, their beaks minute.
Type locality: Near Idria, Carniola, Austria.
Distribution : Austria-Hungary and Balkan Peninsula ; cultivated and occasionally escaped in the eastern states ; especially established in Connecticut.
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- 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
Spiraea chamaedryfolia
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Spiraea chamaedryfolia, common name germander meadowsweet[2] or elm-leaved spirea, is a species of plant belonging to the family Rosaceae.
Description
Spiraea chamaedryfolia is a shrub reaching a height of 1–1.5 metres (3 ft 3 in – 4 ft 11 in). Branchlets are brownish or red-brown. Leaves are simple, oblong or lance-shaped, toothed on the edges, 40–60 millimetres (1.6–2.4 in) long and 10–30 millimetres (0.39–1.18 in) wide, with a petiole of 4–7 mm. The white flowers of 6–9 mm in diameter grow in spikelike clusters at the ends of the branches. Flowering period extends from May to September.[3][4]
Distribution
This species is native to the mixed forests and forest clearings of South Eastern Europe and Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia and Europe). It can be found at an elevation of 600–1,000 metres (2,000–3,300 ft) above sea level.[4][5]
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Spiraea chamaedryfolia: Brief Summary
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Spiraea chamaedryfolia, common name germander meadowsweet or elm-leaved spirea, is a species of plant belonging to the family Rosaceae.
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