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(First upload on October 24 2009. Last on March 3 2014) [ 日本語 | English ]

Spiraea stevenii (C. K. Schneider) Rydberg






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Spiraea L. (シモツケ)
Beauverd spirea (USDA), or Alaska spiraea
Lifeform: deciduous shrub ≈ 30 cm high (occasionally ≈ 1 m high)
Distribution: northwestern part of the North America (also reported from eastern Siberia) → amphi-Beringian
Habitat: moist to wet streambanks, meadows and thickets

wildfire (森林火災)

Flower: white to pinkish in a flat-topped cluster
Chromosome number: 2n = 14 or 18 (reported from Far East)
Synonyms:

Spiraea beauverdiana C. K. Schneid., auct. non.
Spiraea beauverdiana C. K. Schneid. var. stevenii C. K. Schneid.
Spiraea betulifolia Pall. var. aemiliana (C. K. Schneid.) Koidz. (エゾノマルバシモツケ)

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Spiraea stevenii in Alaska


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[1-3] on the slope of Poker Flat near Fairbanks, Alaska, on July 30 2006. In the site, the forest is dominated by Picea mariana that recieved intensive wildfire in 2004. [4] at a research site in Kougarok, Seward Peninsula, AK, on August 9 2013. It was rain.

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