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| Rosaceae | Spiraea ×billardii | | Cultivated, escaped or persisting; introduced from cultivation, one parent from w. North America, one from Eurasia. | Also present in KY and TN (D. Estes, pers. comm.). | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea ×bumalda | | Cultivated, escaped or persisting. | Native of cultivation, both parents from Asia. | |
| Rosaceae | Spiraea ×vanhouttei | Bridal-wreath Spiraea | Cultivated, escaped or persisting. | A hybrid of garden origin between the Asian S. cantoniensis Loureiro and the Asian S. trilobata Linnaeus. | |
| Rosaceae | Spiraea alba | Narrowleaf Meadowsweet, Pipestem | Bogs, boggy streambanks, seepages. | QC west to AB, south to NC, IN, and MO. | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea cantoniensis | | Roadsides. | Native of Asia. S. cantoniensis has been collected twice on Fort Bragg, NC, by Phil Crutchfield (specimen at Fort Bragg) (Sorrie, pers. comm.). Also reported for other scattered states in e. North America (AL, AR, LA, NY (Kartesz 1999, FNA). | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea corymbosa | Dwarf Spiraea, Rock Spiraea | Rocky forests and woodlands, granitic domes, dry slopes of Piedmont monadnocks, rocky slopes in partial sun. | A Southern and Central Appalachian endemic: sc. PA and w. MD south through w. VA, e. WV, to nw. NC, and perhaps also to e. TN (?), to n. AL(?), apparently fairly common only in w. VA. The species is limited to only a few counties each of NC and WV (Franklin 2004, Strausbaugh & Core 1978), and is not listed for TN in Chester, Wofford, & Kral (1997). Although Mohr (1901) listed the species for AL, it is not listed as a part of the state's woody flora by Clark (1971). | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea hypericifolia | European Meadowsweet | Longleaf sandhills and mesic pine-oak forests. | Native of Europe. Reported for ne. TX (Mink, Singhurst, & Holmes (2011b). | |
| Rosaceae | Spiraea japonica | Japanese Spiraea | Roadsides, woodland borders, old home-sites, bogs, alluvial forests. | Native of Japan and China. | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea latifolia | Broadleaf Meadowsweet | Bogs, seeps, and rock outcrops (glades) over amphibolite, greenstone, olivine, and granite. | NL (Newfoundland) west to MI, south to e. VA, w. NC, and n. GA. | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea nipponica | Snowmound Meadowsweet | | Naïve of e. Asia. Reported for e. MS (Lauderdale County) by Kartesz (2020). | |
| Rosaceae | Spiraea prunifolia | Bridalwreath Spiraea | Cultivated, escaped or persisting, and now naturalizing extensively in some regions -- an incipient invasive. | Native of China, Korea, and Taiwan. | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea salicifolia | Willowleaf Spiraea | Cultivated, escaped or persisting. | Native of Eurasia. | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea thunbergii | Thunberg's Meadowsweet | Roadsides, old homesites. | Native of Asia. S. thunbergii has been collected from a roadside at Fort Bragg, NC, by Phil Crutchfield (specimen at Fort Bragg) (Sorrie, pers. comm.). Also GA, MS, and MD (FNA9) and additional states (Kartesz 2020). | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea tomentosa | Hardhack, Steeplebush, Rosy Meadowsweet | Bogs, wet meadows. | NS west to MN, south to SC, ne. GA, c. TN, ne. AL, and AR. | 
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| Rosaceae | Spiraea trilobata var. trilobata | Asian Meadowsweet, Three-lobed Spiraea | Disturbed areas. | Native of e. Asia. Reported by Will Cook from Wake County, NC (Cook, pers. comm. 2011). | |
| Rosaceae | Spiraea virginiana | Virginia Spiraea, Appalachian Spiraea, Virginia Meadowsweet | Riverbanks, riverside shrub thickets, where occasionally flood-scoured. | A Southern Appalachian endemic: sw. PA, s. OH, WV, and sw. VA south through w. NC and e. TN to nw. GA. | 
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