Spiraea corymbosaRaf.

shinyleaf meadowsweet

WFO wfo-0001015451 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Spiraea corymbosa, photographed by stinger
fig. a stinger, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-21 / obs. 81186131
Spiraea corymbosa, photographed by Kathy Richardson
fig. b Kathy Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43360352
Spiraea corymbosa, photographed by Evan M. Raskin
fig. c Evan M. Raskin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8455016
Spiraea corymbosa, photographed by Evan M. Raskin
fig. d Evan M. Raskin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8455022
Spiraea corymbosa, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. e Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145506685
Spiraea corymbosa, photographed by stinger
fig. f stinger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81185935
Spiraea corymbosa, photographed by Jacob Malcom
fig. g Jacob Malcom, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 78817527
Spiraea corymbosa, photographed by jrcagle
fig. h jrcagle, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42462237

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Spiraea corymbosa is native: Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia GeorgiaMarylandMassachusettsNew JerseyNorth CarolinaNova ScotiaOntarioPennsylvaniaTennesseeVirginiaWest Virginia
Native distribution of Spiraea corymbosa, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Georgia GEO NORTHERN AMERICA
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
New Jersey NWJ
North Carolina NCA
Nova Scotia NSC
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
Tennessee TEN
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA

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 11 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.

  • Drimopogon parvifolia B.D.Jacks.
  • Spiraea betulifolia subsp. corymbosa (Raf.) R.L.Taylor & MacBryde
  • Spiraea betulifolia var. corymbosa (Raf.) Maxim.
  • Spiraea corymbosa Muhl.
  • Spiraea corymbosa var. typica C.K.Schneid.
  • Spiraea glauca Raf.
  • Spiraea ostryfolia Raf.
  • Spiraea ostryfolia var. pumila Raf.
  • Spiraea repens Raf.
  • Spiraea repens var. pubescens Raf.
  • Spiraea sororia Penny ex G.Don

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol SPCO12. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.