Spiraea blumeiG.Don

WFO wfo-0001016056 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Spiraea blumei, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. a Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-03-31 / obs. 67461856
Spiraea blumei, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. b Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67608062
Spiraea blumei, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. c Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67613459
Spiraea blumei, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. d Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67606513
Spiraea blumei, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. e Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67461468
Spiraea blumei, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. f Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67607703
Spiraea blumei, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. g Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67462277
Spiraea blumei, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. h Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67733325

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Spiraea blumei is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Manchuria China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaJapanManchuria Korea
Native distribution of Spiraea blumei, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Spiraea amabilis Koidz.
  • Spiraea blumei f. amabilis (Koidz.) Kitam.
  • Spiraea blumei f. amabilis (Koidz.) Sugim.
  • Spiraea blumei f. obtusa (Nakai) Kit.
  • Spiraea blumei f. pseudocrenata (Nakai) M.Kim
  • Spiraea blumei var. amabilis (Koidz.) Kitam.
  • Spiraea blumei var. pseudocrenata (Nakai) H.S.Kim
  • Spiraea hayatae Koidz.
  • Spiraea kinashii Koidz.
  • Spiraea miyajimensis Makino & Nemoto
  • Spiraea obtusa Nakai
  • Spiraea obtusa var. latifolia T.Kawamoto
  • Spiraea obtusata Nakai
  • Spiraea pseudocrenata Nakai
  • Spiraea ribisoidea Koidz.
  • Spiraea ribisoidea var. pubescens Koidz.
  • Spiraea rupestris Zabel
  • Spiraea sikokualpina Koidz.
  • Spiraea sikokualpina var. glabra Koidz.
  • Spiraea trilobata Nakai
  • Spiraea tsusimensis Nakai

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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