Spiraea salicifoliaL.

willowleaf meadowsweet

WFO wfo-0000997542 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Spiraea salicifolia, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. a Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-01 / obs. 160801433
Spiraea salicifolia, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. b Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156667333
Spiraea salicifolia, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. c Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156668116
Spiraea salicifolia, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158413122
Spiraea salicifolia, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. e Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 149353109
Spiraea salicifolia, photographed by Валерия Ковалева
fig. f Валерия Ковалева, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143574858
Spiraea salicifolia, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. g Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138279898
Spiraea salicifolia, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. h Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98667188

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Spiraea salicifolia is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Hungary, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Ukraine AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaHungaryNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaUkraine Korea
Native distribution of Spiraea salicifolia, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Hungary HUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 47 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 alba f. lanceolata (Torr. & A.Gray) C.K.Schneid.
  • Spiraea amena Raf.
  • Spiraea amena var. pauciflora Raf.
  • Spiraea arguta Hoffmanns.
  • Spiraea bethlehemensis K.Koch
  • Spiraea bethlehemensis unranked alba Zabel
  • Spiraea bethlemensis Wenz.
  • Spiraea carnea (Aiton) Steud.
  • Spiraea carpinifolia Willd.
  • Spiraea carpinifolia unranked incarnata Zabel
  • Spiraea eximia Regel
  • Spiraea grandiflora G.Lodd.
  • Spiraea grandiflora Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd.
  • Spiraea heterophylla Raf.
  • Spiraea humilis Pojark.
  • Spiraea incarnata K.Koch
  • Spiraea salicifolia f. grandiflora (Loudon) C.K.Schneid.
  • Spiraea salicifolia subf. bethlehemensis Zabel
  • Spiraea salicifolia var. alpestris Pall.
  • Spiraea salicifolia var. alpestris Maxim.
  • Spiraea salicifolia var. bethlehemensis Lavallée
  • Spiraea salicifolia var. brevifolia Trautv. & C.A.Mey.
  • Spiraea salicifolia var. carnea Aiton
  • Spiraea salicifolia var. floribunda Lavallée

and 23 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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