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Spiraea japonica, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#1618 most planted

Spiraea japonica

Japanese meadowsweet · also Japanese spiraea, Ornamental spiraea

27
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
15 yr
median age (63% have a planting date)

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Spiraea japonica, also known as Japanese meadowsweet or Japanese spiraea, is a shrub belonging to the Rosaceae family. Native to East Asia, including parts of China, Japan, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Tibet, it is currently not considered a threatened species.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Boston · United States
    1715 yr—
  2. Tokyo · Japan
    10——

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

  • Myanmar coastal rain forests
  • South China Sea Islands
  • South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests
  • South Taiwan monsoon rain forests

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
  • Northeast China Plain deciduous forests

Tropical & Subtropical Coniferous Forests

  • Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests

Montane Grasslands & Shrublands

  • Southeast Tibet shrublands and meadows

Other Spiraea in the catalogue

6 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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