Spiraea cana
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Spiraea cana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Spiraea alpina
- Spiraea arcuata
- Spiraea 'Arguta'
- Spiraea bella
- Spiraea betulifolia
- Spiraea × brachybotrys
- Spiraea calcicola
- Spiraea canescens
- Spiraea cantoniensis
- Spiraea chamaedryfolia
- Spiraea chinensis
- Spiraea crenata
- Spiraea decumbens
- Spiraea douglasii
- Spiraea gemmata
- Spiraea henryi
- Spiraea hypericifolia
- Spiraea japonica
- Spiraea longigemmis
- Spiraea 'Margaritae'
- Spiraea media
- Spiraea miyabei
- Spiraea mollifolia
- Spiraea myrtilloides
- Spiraea nipponica
- Spiraea prunifolia
- Spiraea rosthornii
- Spiraea salicifolia
- Spiraea × sanssouciana
- Spiraea sargentiana
- Spiraea thunbergii
- Spiraea tomentosa
- Spiraea trichocarpa
- Spiraea trilobata
- Spiraea × vanhouttei
- Spiraea veitchii
- Spiraea yunnanensis
A shrub 3 ft or more high and as much through, of dense, twiggy habit, the young shoots round and covered with a thick grey down. Leaves narrowly oval or ovate, tapering at both ends, 1⁄3 to 1 in. long, about half as wide, nearly always entire; covered on both sides, but especially beneath, with a grey silky down. Flowers dull white, 1⁄4 in. across, produced during May at the end of short leafy twigs in dense umbel-like racemes 3⁄4 to 1 in. wide.
Native of N.W. Yugoslavia, just reaching into Italy; introduced in 1825. The leaf is very like that of Salix repens in its dense grey down, not, however, so silvery. One of the least attractive of the spiraeas, but of neat habit and quite hardy; also distinct in the character of its leaves.