Spiraea japonica

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Species Distribution Map
Family:ROSACEAE
Species:Spiraea japonica L. f.
Common Name:Japanese Spirea; Japanese Meadowsweet
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Growth Habit:Shrub
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
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Plant Notes:Japanese Spirea is an introduced deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub in the Rose family (Rosaceae). It is native to China, Japan, and Korea. Japanese Spirea is commonly cultivated and has been collected as an escape in east and northeast Alabama. Japanese Spirea grows on creek banks, in forests, in urban woodlands, and on roadsides. Plants are branched, clump-forming shrubs to 4 feet in height. Branches are slender, brown in color, and glabrous or pubescent when young. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, ovate to lanceolate in outline, with doubly serrate margins. Leaves are glabrous above and pubescent below, at least along the veins. Flowers are produced in erect terminal corymbs. Each flower has 5 pink to purplish-pink or white petals and 25-30 stamens. The fruit is a follicle. Japanese Spirea is listed as an invasive species in Tennessee where it threatens native Virginia Spiraea (Spiraea virginiana Britton). Japanese Spirea is commonly available from nurseries. Numerous cultivars are available including those with burgundy or yellowish foliage.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyROSACEAE - Rose family
Genus Spiraea
Species Spiraea japonica L. f. - Japanese Spirea; Japanese Meadowsweet

Citation

Citation Spiraea japonica Linnaeus f., Suppl. Pl. 262. 1781 [1782].
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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Spiraea japonica var. fortunei    

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Cleburne, DeKalb, Jackson, Lee

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, JSU, SAMF, TROY, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
ALNHS00008237 Jackson 08 Jun 2023 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#6046		 ALNHS
Spiraea japonica L. f.
ALNHS00008238 Jackson 08 Jun 2023 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#6046		 ALNHS
Spiraea japonica L. f.
AUA000024233 Cleburne 9 May 1970 Beniwal, S.P.
 AUA
Spiraea Japonica L. F.
JSU131685 Jackson 27 Jun 1998 Brodeur, Kristin R.
925		 JSU
Spiraea japonica L. f.
UWAL0009507 DeKalb 26 Oct 2008 Keener, Brian R.
5016		 UWAL
Spiraea japonica L. f.
ALNHS00008239 Jackson 08 Jun 2023 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#6046		 ALNHS
Spiraea japonica L. f.
TROY000029788 DeKalb 26 Oct 2008 Keener, Brian R.
5016		 TROY
Spiraea japonica Linnaeus f.
SAMF0002093 DeKalb 26 Oct 2008 Keener, Brian R.
5016		 SAMF
Spiraea japonica Linnaeus f.
ALNHS00006428 Lee 28 Apr 2019 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#4399		 ALNHS
Spiraea japonica L. f.
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