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§1 Plant
Spiraea japonica L. f.
vernacular Japanese meadowsweet — species · Rosaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rosaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Spiraea
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 117 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 117 counties across 19 states/territories.
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 5 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Bath 51017
- Buchanan 51027
- Carroll 51035
- Clarke 51043
- Dickenson 51051
- Fairfax 51059
- Floyd 51063
- Fluvanna 51065
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Greene 51079
- Highland 51091
- Nelson 51125
- Orange 51137
- Patrick 51141
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Smyth 51173
- Tazewell 51185
- Washington 51191
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SPJA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8170635 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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