Spiraea alba Du Roi (Q4417)

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Spiraea alba is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Spiraea
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Spiraea alba Du Roi
Spiraea alba is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Spiraea

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    taxon/id/Spiraea alba Du Roi
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    Spiraea alba Du Roi
    Spiraea alba
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    spirée blanche (French)
    white meadowsweet (English)
    Narrow-leaf (English)
    eastern (English)
    or white meadowsweet (English)
    spirée blanche (English)
    in Europe
    Shrubs, 10–20 dm.
    Stems erect, unbranched.
    Leaves: petiole 2–8 mm, puberulent or sparsely hairy;
    blade narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate or broadly oblanceolate to obovate, 2–9 × 0.5–3 cm, length 3–5 times width, chartaceous or membranous, base cuneate to rounded, margins finely to coarsely, sharply serrate to serrulate (sometimes doubly so on long-shoot leaves), number of primary and secondary serrations 0.5–1.1 times number of secondary-veins (excluding inter-secondary veins), venation pinnate craspedodromous, secondary-veins not prominent, irregularly terminating in primary teeth, inter-secondary veins usually 8–12+ per leaf, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface mostly glabrous, adaxial glabrous.
    Inflorescences mostly terminal, narrowly conic to open, pyramidal panicles, 5–20 × 3–10 cm height 1.4–3.5 times diam.;
    branches usually in axils of leaves, puberulent to pubescent.
    Pedicels 1–2 (–3) mm, glabrous or glabrate.
    Flowers 3–8 mm diam.;
    hypanthia hemispheric, 0.6–0.8 mm, abaxial surface usually puberulent to sparsely strigose, sometimes glabrate or glabrous, adaxial glabrous;
    sepals triangular, 0.8–1.5 mm;
    petals usually white, sometimes pink-tinged (in bud), suborbiculate, 1.3–2 (–3) mm;
    staminodes 0–4;
    stamens 30–50, 1–2 times petal length.
    Follicles oblanceoloid, 3–4 mm, shiny, glabrous.