Germander meadowsweet
Spiraea chamaedryfolia L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- —
Rosaceae
Formerly Spiraea alnifolia, Spiraea aubifolia, Spiraea banatica, Spiraea belgica, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Europe to JapanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Chicago Botanic Garden, one source
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Chicago Botanic Garden and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Chicago Botanic Garden, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Czech
- tavolník ožankolistý
- Welsh
- erwain dail llwyfen
- Finnish
- idänvirpiangervo
- Dutch
- iepspirea, Iepspirea
- Chinese
- 石蚕叶绣线菊
- Simplified Chinese
- 乌苏里绣线菊, 石蚕叶绣线菊
- Slovenian
- vrednikovolistna medvejka
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Chicago Botanic Garden, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Spiraea chamaedryfolia (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.