Rosaceae

Scalloped spirea

Spiraea crenata L.

Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Spiraea

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Scalloped spirea (Spiraea crenata) — FlowerPhoto: Евгений Маринкин, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist

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Common names

By language (12)

Armenian: Ասպիրակ աղեղնաեզր
Azerbaijani: Dişli topulqa
Bulgarian: Нарязанолистен тъжник
Catalan: Espirea crenada, Spirea crenata
Chinese: 圆齿叶绣线菊, 圓齒葉繡線菊, 圆齿绣线菊
English: Scalloped spirea
Hungarian: Csipkés gyöngyvessző
Kazakh: Шайқурай тобылғы
mzn: شیرگا
Persian: اسپیره کانادایی
Swedish: Altaispirea
Ukrainian: Таволга зарубчаста

Synonyms

Spiraea hypericifolia var. crenata (L.) Ser.
Spiraea vaccinifolia hort. ex C.K.Schneid.

Flowers

In flower: May to June (from 65 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)

Photos

FlowerPhoto: Евгений Маринкин, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Elio Oblomoff, CC0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Евгений Маринкин, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Andrey Sdobnikov, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
LeavesPhoto: Евгений Маринкин, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Liuthalas, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Svitlana Kyiak, CC0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Петроченко Віктор Іванович, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Петроченко Віктор Іванович, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Петроченко Віктор Іванович, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.