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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 244 ROSACEAE. Opulaster opulifolius (L.) Kuntze. Ninebark. Fig. Spiraea ofulifoUa L. Sp. PI. 489. 1753. Neillia opulifolia Brew. & Wats. Bo't. Cal. i: 171. 1876. Opulaster opulifolius Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 949. 1891. A shrub 3°-l0° high, with recurved branches, glabrous twigs and foliage, the bark peeling off in thin strips. Stipules cadu
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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 244 ROSACEAE. Opulaster opulifolius (L.) Kuntze. Ninebark. Fig. Spiraea ofulifoUa L. Sp. PI. 489. 1753. Neillia opulifolia Brew. & Wats. Bo't. Cal. i: 171. 1876. Opulaster opulifolius Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 949. 1891. A shrub 3°-l0° high, with recurved branches, glabrous twigs and foliage, the bark peeling off in thin strips. Stipules caducous; leaves peti- oled, ovate-orbicular, obtusely or acutely 3-lobed, cordate, truncate or broadly cuneate at the base. l'-2' long, or larger on the young shoots, the lobes irregularly crenate-dentate; corymbs ter- minal, peduncled, nearly spherical, many-flowered, 1-2' broad; pedicels slender, glabrous or slightly pubescent, 5'-8' long; flowers white or purplish; calyx glabrous or somewhat pubescent; 3-S, glabrous, shining, 3'-s' long, obliquely subulate-tipped, twice as long as the calyx. River-ljanks and in rocky places, Quebec to Georgia. Tennessee and Michigan. Jvine. Opulaster australis Rydb., growing in the moun- tains from Virginia to South Carolina, appears to be a race of this species with smaller follicles. Opulaster intermedius Rydb. Nine-bark. Fig. 2214. O. intermedius Rydb. Man. 492. Schneider
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