Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Filipendula filipendula (L.) Voss, in Vilmorin, Blumenz
ed. 3. 1 : 240. 1896.— Asch. & Graebn. Syn.
Mittel. Eur. Fl. 6 : 439. 1902.
Spiraea Filipendula X,. Sp. PI. 490. 1753.
Filipendula hexapetala Gilib. FL Lithuan. 2 : 237. 1781.
Filipendula vulgaris Moench, Meth. 663. 1794.
Spiraea tuberosa Salisb. Prodr. 364. 1796.
Ulmaria Filipendula Hill, Hort. Kew. 214. 1768.
Spiraea vulgaris S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. 2 : 588. 1821.
Perennial with a short rootstock ; roots thickened, fusiform ; stem erect, round, simple or branched above, almost leafless, 3-6 dm. high ; leaves mostly basal with more than 40 pairs of larger, lanceolate, pinnatifid segments, which are over 2 cm. long, and between them smaller 3-5-toothed segments ; inflorescence flat ; sepals and petals mostly 6 ; the former white, rarely pink or rose, rounded; achenes 10-12, about 3 mm. long, erect, not twisted, hispid all over, terete, laterally attached by the semicordate base ; style short, reflexed ; stigma capitate.
Type locality : Pastures of Europe.
Distribution : Rarely escaped from cultivation in eastern United States ; native of Europe
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
