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Spiraea prunifolia Siebold & Zucc.

Bridal Wreath, Bridalwreath Spirea, Bridalwreath spiraea, bridal-wreath

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Summary

Spiraea prunifolia, commonly called bridalwreath spirea, is a species of the genus Spiraea, sometimes also spelled Spirea. It flowers mid-spring, around May 5, and is native to Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan. It is sometimes cultivated as a garden plant elsewhere.

Text from Wikipedia, “Spiraea prunifolia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Spiraea

Spiraea, sometimes spelled spirea in common names, and commonly known as meadowsweets or steeplebushes, is a genus of about 80 to 100 species of shrubs in the family Rosaceae. They are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with the greatest diversity in eastern Asia.

Text from Wikipedia, “Spiraea”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Siebold & Zucc.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Korea +1
Wild records
1226 in range· 366 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Aug, mean day; nights 21 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1445mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jul 345 mm (CHELSA)
Light
15–37DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1445 mm a year, wettest July at 345 mm, driest December at 27 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 37 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -14.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Spiraea prunifolia var. integrifolia Dunn; Spiraea prunifolia var. typica C.K.Schneid.; Spiraea pseudoprunifolia Hayata; Spiraea pseudoprunifolia var. typica Hatus.; Spiraea simpliciflora (Nakai) Hatus. and 2 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May to September at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1109 mm of 1445 mm) falls in May to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 21.5 °C against a yearly mean of 12.2 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1445 mm a year, wettest July at 345 mm, driest December at 27 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1445 mm a year at the habitat, 1109 mm of it May to September. Wettest month July at 345 mm, driest December at 27 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1229 mm to 2736 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 37 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 37 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 14, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -14.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -14.3 °C, the absolute minimum -22.0 °C, about 125 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.1 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -6.6 °C in January (across the envelope cells -12.4 °C to 3.2 °C), warmest day 27.7 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -14.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 55 to 66% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 2 °C in Jan to 28 °C in Aug; mean night from -7 °C in Jan to 21 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1445 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 806 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -22.0 °C and the 99th-percentile day 33.1 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost33.1° 99th-percentile day (undated)-22.0° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 15–37RH 55–66 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 806 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C2 / -2–114 / 2–1210 / 7–1517 / 13–2121 / 18–2425 / 22–2727 / 24–2928 / 24–2924 / 20–2618 / 16–2211 / 8–174 / 1–12
Night °C-7 / -12–3-5 / -9–5-0 / -3–86 / 3–1211 / 9–1716 / 14–1921 / 17–2221 / 18–2316 / 13–209 / 6–152 / -1–9-4 / -8–5
Rain mm29 / 21–8036 / 25–12657 / 46–16982 / 68–206108 / 90–281168 / 133–372345 / 238–463314 / 229–436174 / 137–35354 / 44–12251 / 39–8327 / 19–55
DLI17 / 16–1923 / 19–2429 / 25–3035 / 29–3637 / 30–3735 / 31–3629 / 27–3529 / 27–3226 / 25–2824 / 23–2517 / 16–2015 / 14–18
RH %56 / 54–6255 / 53–6356 / 54–6355 / 53–6458 / 56–6461 / 59–6666 / 63–6966 / 63–6862 / 60–6558 / 57–6357 / 55–6157 / 54–61

Each figure is the median across the 806 grid cells holding the 1220 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1070:6150 (36.475, 127.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -22.0 °C, 1st-percentile night -14.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.1 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 806 distinct grid cells holding the 1220 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1070:6150 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 36.50_127.500, lapse-corrected -27 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 171 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast, Korea, Taiwan· introduced: Bulgaria, Japan, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Illinois, Missouri, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, California, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker36.843, 127.379 · in the densest population, 773 records (63% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1226 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 366 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 40 km away. 373 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 1226 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Yu-Chang Chen, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0 (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Spiraea prunifolia, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory activities of caffeoyl hemiterpene glycosides from Spiraea prunifolia
Sang Hee Park, Kwan Hee Park, Myeong Hwan Oh, Han Hyuk Kim (2013) · Phytochemistry
The methanol extract of Spiraea prunifolia var. simpliciflora root inhibits the generation of nitric oxide and superoxide in RAW 264.7 cells
Hong‐Seob So, Raekil Park, Hyun‐Mee Oh, Hyun‐Ock Pae (1999) · Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Prunioside A: A New Terpene Glycoside from Spiraea prunifolia
Hyuncheol Oh, Gi‐Su Oh, Won-Gil Seo, Hyun‐Ock Pae (2001) · Journal of Natural Products
A new phenolic glycoside from Spiraea prunifolia var. simpliciflora twigs
Sung Wan Jang, Won Se Suh, Chung Sub Kim, Ki Hyun Kim (2015) · Archives of Pharmacal Research
cis-Cinnamoyl Glucoside as a Major Plant Growth Inhibitor Contained in Spiraea prunifolia
Sayaka Morita, Syuntaro Hiradate, Yoshiharu Fujii, Jiro Harada (2005) · Plant Growth Regulation
Investigation of chemical constituents from Spiraea prunifolia var. simpliciflora and their biological activities
Chung Sub Kim, Joonseok Oh, Won Se Suh, Sung Wan Jang (2017) · Phytochemistry Letters
The absolute configuration of prunioside A from Spiraea prunifolia and biological activities of related compounds
Hyuncheol Oh, Hyungsoo Shin, Gi‐Su Oh, Hyun‐Ock Pae (2003) · Phytochemistry
A New Megastigmane Glucoside and Three New Flavonoid Glycosides from Spiraea prunifolia var. simpliciflora
Min Hye Yean, Ju Sun Kim, Sam Sik Kang, Yeong Shik Kim (2014) · Helvetica Chimica Acta
Ester Derivatives from Tannase-treated Prunioside A and Their Anti-inflammatory Activities
Chang‐Soo Jun (2007) · Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
Environmental and Ecological Characteristics of Habitats of Abelia tyaihyoni Nakai
Kyung‐Ah Kim, Su Kil Jang, Kyeong Sik Cheon, Won Bok Seo (2010) · Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Spiraea 9 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 138 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.