Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Rosales > Rosaceae > Spiraea > Spiraea bumalda

Spiraea bumalda (fortune meadowsweet)

Synonyms: Spiraea japonica f. bumalda; Spiraea japonica var. bumalda; Spiraea pumila var. bumalda (homotypic); Spiraea xbumalda

Infraspecies

Spiraea bumalda f. bumalda
Spiraea bumalda f. pruhoniciana

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [1]  Shrub
Usage [1]  Plants can be grown as a low hedge, the cultivar 'Albiflora' has been especially mentioned; 'Bumalda' has also been recommended; Plants can be grown as a ground cover when planted about 1.2 metres apart each way;
Height [1]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Spiraea bumalda

Protected Areas

Predators

Drosicha corpulenta[2]
Neptis pryeri[3]
Neptis rivularis (Hungarian Glider)[4]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Anechura japonica[3]
Bombus ignitus[3]
Eristalis tenax (drone fly)[3]
Fabriciana adippe[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0