| Spiraea douglasii subsp. menziesii (Hook.) Calder & Taylor | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Spiraea douglasii var. menziesii (Hook.) Presl., Spiraea menziesii Hook. | ||
| Description | Shrub with erect, densely puberulent branches; leaves ovate-oblong to oblong- elliptic, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, paler below, sharply and remotely serrate; inflorescence paniculate; calyx lobes triangular, pubescent; petals obovate to orbicu- lar, pink to rose-colored; filaments of the same color; follicles shining. | ||
| Ecology | Banks of streams, bogs. Described from the northwest coast of North America, at about the Columbia River. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. Douglasii (sometimes also escaped from cultivation farther east). |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.