Spiraea media
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Spiraea media' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- S. confusa Reg. & Koernicke
- S. oblongifolia Waldst. & Kit.
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Spiraea alpina
- Spiraea arcuata
- Spiraea 'Arguta'
- Spiraea bella
- Spiraea betulifolia
- Spiraea × brachybotrys
- Spiraea calcicola
- Spiraea cana
- 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 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
An erect shrub, up to 4 or 6 ft high, with glabrous, round stems sometimes downy when young. Leaves ovate or oblong with a wedge-shaped base, 1 to 2 in. long, 1⁄3 to 3⁄4 in. wide, the terminal part sharply toothed or with a few large teeth only near the apex, sometimes entire, upper surface glabrous, lower one more or less hairy or sometimes glabrous; stalk 1⁄6 in. or less long. Flowers white, 1⁄3 in. across, produced during late April and early May in long-stalked racemes 1 to 11⁄2 in. across each terminating a short leafy twig.
Native mainly of Russia, where it extends from the European parts almost to the Pacific, but occurring also in eastern Central Europe and the northern part of the Balkans; its western limit is in Austria (Steiermark) and the mountains north of Trieste. It is a pretty species, but liable to be injured by late spring frosts.
f. glabrescens (Simonkai) Zab
Leaves quite glabrous or soon becoming so.var. mollis (Koch & Bouché) Schneid.
Synonyms
S. mollis Koch & Bouché
var. sericea (Turcz.) Maxim.
Synonyms
S. sericea Turcz
2024 var. sericea has been synonymised with S. media subsp. media (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 2023)
Leaves entire, or few-toothed at the apex, downy above at first, later glabrous, usually permanently silky-hairy beneath. Native of the Russian Far East, Sakhalin, N. China, Korea and Japan.S. media bears some resemblance to S. chamaedryfolia, which has more toothed leaves, angled stems, and longer petals (about {3/16} to almost {1/4} in. long, against {1/8} in. long in S. media). Also the styles are terminal in S. chamaedryfolia while in S. media they are inserted on the outer side of the carpels, just below the apex.