Spiraea canescens


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Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Height: 8 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Width: 6 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 4 to 10
Flower features: white
Scientific Names

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Scientific Names



Read about Spiraea canescens in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Spiraea canescens, D. Don. Shrub, 6 or sometimes 12 ft. high, with spreading and arching branches; branchlets angled: lvs. broadly oval to obovate, very short-petioled, crenately dentate above the middle, grayish green, pubescent beneath or sometimes almost glabrous at length, 1/3 – 3/4 in. long: fls. white, rather small, in dense, semi-globose corymbs to 2 in. across, appearing very profusely along the branches; stamens about as long as petals; sepals upright or spreading in fr.: follicles villous, with the ascending styles a little below the apex. July. Himalayas. Gn. 45, p. 49; 49, p. 421; 52, p. 28; 54, p. 48; 61. p. 380; 62, p. 414. G.C. III. 43:90.—Very graceful and handsome shrub, but not hardy N. It occurs under very many different names in the gardens, as S. cuneata, S. cuneifolia, S. flagellata, S. flagelliformis, S. rotundifolia, S. vaccinifolia, and others. Var. myrtifolia, Zabel (S. argentea, Hort.). Lvs. dark green above, glaucescent and less pubescent below, narrower. M.D.G. 1906:385. CH


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