| Spiraea beauverdiana Schneid. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Spiraea stevenii Rydb., Spiraea betulifolia | ||
| Common name | alaska spiraea | ||
| Description | Low to middle-sized shrub; young branches reddish-brown, puberulent, glabres- cent in age; leaves oblong, elliptic to ovate, glabrous or nearly so, pale beneath, dentate-crenate in margin, especially toward apex, sometimes entire; corymbs flat- topped, densely puberulent; sepals reflexed, petals white or pinkish. | ||
| Ecology | Occurs in many different habitats: woods, alder thickets, meadows, and tundra bogs, up into alpine zone; a very common plant. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Highly variable in height, and in form, size, and serration of the leaves. | ||
| Uses | The leaves are used for tea by the Siberian Eskimo. |
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.