Spiraea canescens

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 Spiraea canescens subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Spiraea canescens, D. Don. Shrub, 6 or sometimes 12 ft. high, with spreading and arching branches; branchlets angled: lvs. broadly oval to obovate, very short-petioled, crenately dentate above the middle, grayish green, pubescent beneath or sometimes almost glabrous at length, 1/3 – 3/4 in. long: fls. white, rather small, in dense, semi-globose corymbs to 2 in. across, appearing very profusely along the branches; stamens about as long as petals; sepals upright or spreading in fr.: follicles villous, with the ascending styles a little below the apex. July. Himalayas.—Very graceful and handsome shrub, but not hardy N. It occurs under very many different names in the gardens, as S. cuneata, S. cuneifolia, S. flagellata, S. flagelliformis, S. rotundifolia, S. vaccinifolia, and others. Var. myrtifolia, Zabel (S. argentea, Hort.). Lvs. dark green above, glaucescent and less pubescent below, narrower. CH


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