Family | Rosaceae |
Subfamily | Spiraeoideae |
Scientific name | Spiraea salicifolia L. |
Synonyms | none |
Common name | (Japanese common name) hozaki-shimotuke (ホザキシモツケ, 穂咲下野 [meaning: head blooming shimotuke (shimotuke = Spiraea japonica)]) |
(English common name) bridewort, willowleaf meadowsweet | |
Distribution | (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu (Nikko, Kirigamine) |
(Other nations) Russia, Korea, China, Mongolia, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Austria | |
Chromosomal number | 2n=36 |
Description | Plants 1-2m tall. Leaves 5-8cm long. Flowers pink 6-8mm across, flowering in June to August. Deciduous. Shrub. |
Reference | Spiraea salicifolia L. |
Spiraea salicifolia Linnaeus | |
Spiraea salicifolia | |
Acetylsalicylic acid and micronutrient supplementation for nutritional losses and coronary heart disease (US Patent 5948443/1999) | |
Modular system of dietary supplement compositions for optimizing health benefits and methods (US Patent 5976568/1999) |
July 2008 at Karuizawa Botanical Garden |
July 2008 at Karuizawa Botanical Garden |
July 2008 at Karuizawa Botanical Garden |