Irish wildflowers

Bridewort, Spiraea salicifolia, Brídeach
Photographs: Co. Cork

Bridewort
Spiraea salicifolia
Brídeach
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering May-August. Deciduous shrub. Garden escape. Introduced.

Panicles of small 5-petalled pink flowers, often sterile. Toothed oblong-ovate leaves, hairless, turning orange/yellow in autumn. Suckering growth habit, spreads vegetatively. Height: To 2m.
Identified by Paul Green

Garden escape, naturalised on roadsides, riverbanks, waste ground.

Similar: Spirea x pseudosalicifolia. Downy leaves.

Bridewort, Spiraea salicifolia, Brídeach

Bridewort, Spiraea salicifolia, Brídeach
Bridewort, Spiraea salicifolia, Brídeach

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