Spiraea hypericifoliaL.

Iberian spirea

WFO wfo-0000985818 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Spiraea hypericifolia, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 205657742
Spiraea hypericifolia, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196515841
Spiraea hypericifolia, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196458883
Spiraea hypericifolia, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. d Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194746676
Spiraea hypericifolia, photographed by Valentin Kosterin
fig. e Valentin Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195525814
Spiraea hypericifolia, photographed by Иван Пристрем
fig. f Иван Пристрем, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195615509
Spiraea hypericifolia, photographed by Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun
fig. g Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192884545
Spiraea hypericifolia, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. h Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151393230

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Spiraea hypericifolia is native: Altay, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, East European Russia, France, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, South European Russia, Spain, Ukraine AltayBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangNepalPakistanWest HimalayaBulgariaCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaFranceItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSouth European RussiaSpainUkraine
Native distribution of Spiraea hypericifolia, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Ukraine UKR
Nepal NEP ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

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.

Flowering 117 in flower of 155 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Spiraea hypericifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 117 of 155 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 63 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.

  • Eleiosina virgata Raf.
  • Spiraea acutifolia Willd.
  • Spiraea ambigua Pall.
  • Spiraea aquilegiifolia Pall.
  • Spiraea cavanillesii Gand.
  • Spiraea crenata Cav.
  • Spiraea crenata Pall.
  • Spiraea crenata var. hispanica Willd.
  • Spiraea cuneifolia Sennen & T.S.Elias
  • Spiraea flabellata Bertol. ex Guss.
  • Spiraea flabellata var. crenata Nyman
  • Spiraea flabellata var. crenata (Cav.) Nyman
  • Spiraea hispanica Barrelier ex Zabel
  • Spiraea hispanica (Willd.) Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Spiraea hispanica Ortega ex C.Vicioso
  • Spiraea hispanica Ortega
  • Spiraea hispanica var. rhodoclada (Leresche & Levier) Losa
  • Spiraea hookeriana Raf.
  • Spiraea hypericifolia f. subalpina Zinserl.
  • Spiraea hypericifolia prol. obovata (Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd.) Asch. & Graebn.
  • Spiraea hypericifolia prol. typica Asch. & Graebn.
  • Spiraea hypericifolia var. acuta Ser.
  • Spiraea hypericifolia var. acutifolia (Willd.) Wenz.
  • Spiraea hypericifolia var. acutifolia (Willd.) Dippel

and 39 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. 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.

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