An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . Genus 2. ROSE FAMILV. 245. I. Spiraea latifolia (Ait.) Borkh. American Meadow-sweet. Quaker 2215. 5. salicifolia laltfolia .•Kit. Hort. Kew. 2 : 198. latifolia Borkh. Handb. Forstbot. 1871. 1803. An erect shrub, 2°-6° high, simple, orbranched above, nearly glabrous, the stemsreddish or purpHsh. Leaves petioled, broadlyoblanceolate or obovate, glabrou
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . Genus 2. ROSE FAMILV. 245. I. Spiraea latifolia (Ait.) Borkh. American Meadow-sweet. Quaker 2215. 5. salicifolia laltfolia .•Kit. Hort. Kew. 2 : 198. latifolia Borkh. Handb. Forstbot. 1871. 1803. An erect shrub, 2°-6° high, simple, orbranched above, nearly glabrous, the stemsreddish or purpHsh. Leaves petioled, broadlyoblanceolate or obovate, glabrous or verynearly so, sharply and rather coarsely serrate,especially above the middle, l-2 long, 4-i8wide, or on young shoots much larger, obtuseor acutish at the apex, cuneate to rounded atthe base, pale beneath; stipules deciduous ornone; flowers white or pinkish-tinged, 2-^broad, in dense terminal panicles; folliclesglabrous. In moist or rocky ground, Newfoundland toSaskatchewan, Virginia and western Pennsylva-nia. Called also queen-of-the-meadow. Spice hard-hack. June-Aug. Included in our first edition in the descriptionof the Asiatic S. salicijolia L., which has pubes-cent inflorescence, pink flowers and narrower ob-long leaves; it is someti
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