Spiraea salicifolia Linnaeus (Q4425)

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Spiraea salicifolia is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Spiraea
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Spiraea salicifolia Linnaeus
Spiraea salicifolia is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Spiraea

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    Spiraea salicifolia Linnaeus
    Spiraea salicifolia
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    spirée à feuilles de saule (French)
    willow-leaved meadowsweet (English)
    Bridewort (English)
    willowleaf meadowsweet (English)
    Flowering Jun–Aug; fruiting Jun–Sep.
    old homesteads
    moist areas
    flood plains
    Shrubs, 10–20 dm, thicket forming.
    Stems erect to ascending or spreading, rarely branched.
    Leaves: petiole 2–6 mm;
    blade narrowly rhombic to rhombic or lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, usually widest at middle, 3–7 × 1–3 cm, length 3–5 times width, chartaceous, base acute, margins sharply serrate to serrulate nearly to base, number of primary and secondary serrations 1 times number of secondary-veins (excluding inter-secondary veins), venation pinnate craspedodromous, secondary-veins not prominent, regularly terminating in primary teeth, inter-secondary veins usually 1–4 per leaf, apex acute, abaxial surface mostly puberulent, adaxial glabrous.
    Inflorescences mostly terminal, cylindric to obconic panicles, 5–10 × 2–4 cm height 2–5 times diam.;
    branches sometimes in axils of leaves, puberulent or glabrous.
    Pedicels 3–6 mm, puberulent or glabrous.
    Flowers 4–7 (–10) mm diam.;
    hypanthia hemispheric, 0.8–1 mm, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely puberulent, adaxial glabrous;
    sepals ovate, 0.8–1 mm;
    petals pink, elliptic to widely obovate, 1.8–2 mm;
    stamens 28–32, 2 times petal length.
    Follicles oblanceoloid, 4 mm, glabrous, adaxial suture glabrous or ciliate.