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Se densiflora Nutt. Shrub 1-1.5 m. tall, the branches ascending; . 
‘ /second year bark reddish-brown, smooth and shining, soon flaking away, mature | 
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é. Spiraea L. Meadow-Sweet, hey 
Shrubs with alternate, simple leaves. Stipules none. Flowers in 
terminal corymbs or panicles. Calyx campamlate, the tube hemispherical 
or obconical; sepals persistent. Petals 5, white or rose-color, spbead: 
Stamens mimerous, perigynous. Pistils 5, distinct; styles filiform stigy 
capitate or discoid. Fruit a cluster of small, leathery follicles; seeds 
several in each. 
Flowers in a flat-topped corymby, 
Flowers rose-colored; a branching shrub i $ . 1 
50-150 om. tall 4, Ss densiflora, | 
Flowers white; stems commonly unbranched or a 
branched near the base, 30-50 om. tall f “2.8. corymbosa 
Flowers in a narrow, domi fancy, more or less / | 
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bark dull brown with a purplish tinge, smooth; leaffblades 2-6 cme long on the” 
same plant, mostly oval or oval-oblong, rounded at both ends or somewhat 
narrowed at the base, dull green above, paler beneath, margin once or twice 
serrate above the middle, petioles 2-3 cm. long; flowers rose-purple, 
corymbs 2-6 cm. broad, bractlets linear; sepals 1.5 mm. long, equal 
to the tube, ovate or triangulareovate, obtuse or acute; petals obovate-rotund, 
about 2 mm. long, very shortly clawed; stamens erect and spreading, 5-6 mm. 
long; follicles about 4:mm. long, brown and shining. 
Occurs at elevations of 5000-6500 feet or more in the eastern part of 
our region, in subalpine meadows and bogs, on moist slopes and along streams. 
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de Se corymbosa Raf. -——>A low shrub 30<50 cm. tall, the stems frequently 
solitary and unbranched, or branching near the ground; old bark a 
flaking away, bark on new growth a rich brown or purplish, shining, checking 
when older; leaves 3-6 cm. long, oval to obovate, even subrotund, glabrous, 
toothed above the middle, the teeth salient, acute, narrowed below the middle 
to a petiole 3-6 mm. long; flowers mmerous.i h 
white, bractlets few, subulate, the pedicels” slender; calyx 1.5 mm. long, the 
lobes triangular, reflexed, half the length of the cup-shaped tube; petals 1.5 | 
mme long, rotund; stamens tinged with pink, 4-5 mm. long; follicles 5, 3 mme 
long, the persistent style half again as long. ——>(S. lucida Dougl.). 4 
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Common throughout our region, 2000-6000 feet, found especially in burns 
and on open slopes in thin soil, where it frequently is the dominant plant 
over small areas. 
