Snowmound Spirea
'Snowmound' Spirea
Spiraea nipponica 'Snowmound'
Rosaceae (Rose Family)
▲ ▼ mature shrubs
▲ ▼ foliage and dried flowers/fruit
Location on campus: at the southeast corner of the MSU Bookstore on campus, and on the northeast corner of Greenwood Lab School
Spiraea nipponica ‘Snowmound:’ ‘Snowmound’ Spirea
- leaves alternate, deciduous, simple, oblong obovate, 1-1/5" long, toothed at tip of leaf; dark green to blue green above; pale, almost whitish underneath
- stems dark brown to purplish, thin, rigid emerging at upright angles from main stem
- flowers in small white clusters at the nodes in late spring; flower clusters all sit on top side of lateral branches giving a “snow-covered" effect to branches
- grows 3-5' tall and 2/3 to as wide in an upright oval shrub with new sprouts from base annually
- prefers full sun and moist, well-drained soils; benefits from removal of older limbs each year
- medium growth rate