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Mountain Spiraea

Spiraea splendens

Description:

Spiraea splendens occasionally called mountain spiraea, dense-flowered spiraea, rose meadowsweet, rosy spiraea, and subalpine spiraea is a mountain shrub found on the west coast of North America from California to British Columbia. It grows at elevations between 2,000 and 11,000 feet on inland mountain ranges. The plant is adapted to cold, moist, rocky slopes. It is a woody shrub rarely reaching a meter in height. It has light green toothed leaves which turn yellow as cold weather approaches. The plant bears fragrant, fuzzy pom-pons of bright rosy pink flowers in the summer. The fruit is a tiny dry pod, no more than one eighth of an inch in length. [wikipedia]

Habitat:

I found these about 10ft from the bank of a duck pond.

Notes:

There was an interesting bunch of Philaenus spumarius eggs it looks like under one of the flowers.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Jae
Jae 9 years ago
Mountain Spiraea
Spiraea splendens Spiraea splendens


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3 Comments

Jae
Jae 9 years ago

No problem, Mark :)

Marc Ramsey
Marc Ramsey 9 years ago

Thanks, that looks about right!

Jae
Jae 9 years ago

Hey Marc, great pictures!
The mucus under the flower could be a foam nest of the meadow froghopper (Philaenus spumarius).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philaenus_s...

Marc Ramsey
Spotted by
Marc Ramsey

Olympia, Washington, USA

Spotted on May 29, 2014
Submitted on Jun 4, 2014

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