Ocean spray
Holodiscus discolor (Pursh) Maxim.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.1 m
- wide
- 1.3 m
Rosaceae
Also called Cream bush, Oceanspray, Rockspiraea, Bush oceanspray, Mountain spray
Formerly Holodiscus dumosus, Schizonotus discolor, Sericotheca discolor, Spiraea discolor
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. Canada to MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from PFAF, one source
- Height
- 2.1 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 1.2 m to 1.5 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from PFAF, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Llovizna
- Norwegian Bokmål
- toppspirea
- Czech
- celoterčník různobarvý
- Chinese (China)
- 绣珠梅
- Chinese
- 繡珠莓, 全盘花, 绣珠梅
- Swedish
- vippspirea
- Russian
- Холодискус разноцветный
- root
- q̕áʔc̕ɬč, qeθəɬp, ḰAȾEȽĆ
- Danish
- amerikansk spiræa
- French
- holodisque discolore
- German
- Wald-Schaumspiere
- Finnish
- nukka-angervo
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- PFAF, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Holodiscus discolor (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.