Spiraea trilobata (Asian meadowsweet)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Spiraea trilobata, photographed by Nina Filippova — fig. a Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 196807369

Spiraea trilobata, photographed by Татьяна Фирсова — fig. d Татьяна Фирсова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 141809001

Spiraea trilobata, photographed by Yi CHEN — fig. f Yi CHEN, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82275401

Spiraea trilobata, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна — fig. g Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84833588

Spiraea trilobata, photographed by portioid — fig. h portioid, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9125849

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Spiraea trilobata, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Altay	ALT	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central	CHN
China Southeast	CHS
Inner Mongolia	CHI
Kazakhstan	KAZ
Krasnoyarsk	KRA
Manchuria	CHM
Xinjiang	CHX

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 51 in flower of 84 examined

22%

89%

50%

20%

Proportion of examined Spiraea trilobata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	2	9	22%	6% to 55%
May	41	46	89%	77% to 95%
Jun	7	14	50%	27% to 73%
Jul	0	3	too few examined
Aug	1	5	20%	4% to 62%
Sep	0	1	too few examined
Oct	0	3	too few examined
Nov	0	3	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Spiraea trilobata 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. 51 of 84 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 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.

Eleiosina triloba (Murray) B.D.Jacks.
Eleiosina triloba Raf.
Spiraea crataegifolia hort.
Spiraea crataegifolia Anon.
Spiraea grossulariifolia Zabel
Spiraea rotundifolia K.Koch
Spiraea triloba L.
Spiraea trilobata L.
Spiraea trilobata var. pubescens T.T.Yu
Spiraea trilobata var. pubescens Regel
Spiraea trilobata var. trilobata

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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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