There are even a few non-invasive options within the spirea genus, like rose meadowsweet (Spiraea splendens) and white meadowsweet (Spiraea alba). You can also brighten your garden with other ...

Just kidding, they are the same. The spirea is in the rose family and has the common name meadowsweet. Today, however, I am telling you about an incredible Spirea japonica, or Japanese Meadowsweet ...

including birchleaf spirea (Spiraea betulifolia), which has white flowers and red, orange and purple fall color, and meadowsweet (Spiraea alba), a mound-shaped shrub with conical white flower ...

A pair of native spiraeas flourish in moist soils, but will also thrive in garden settings if well irrigated. These are meadowsweet (Spiraea alba) and steeplebush (Spiraea tomentosa). Both are hardy ...

Maryland native species include white meadowsweet (spiraea alba), broadleaf meadowsweet (spiraea latifolia), and steeplebush (spiraea tomentosa) and bloom colors are either pink or white ...

Hardy zones 3-9. Other star performers of midsummer are a pair of native spiraeas: the meadowsweet (Spiraea alba) and the steeplebush (Spiraea tomentosa). The meadowsweet makes an upright shrub to ...

At the time, meadowsweet's official name was Spiraea and the drug that was made from it became known as aspirin. The invented word combined the ''a'' from acetylic acid and the ''spir'' from Spiraea.

Bayer patented the new medicine on February 27, 1900, and made a title for it out of the Latin name for meadowsweet: spiraea ulmaria. They stuck an a' in front of the spir' bit to represent the ...

Just kidding, they are pronounced the same. The spirea is in the rose family and has the common name "meadowsweet." This column, however, focuses on the incredible Spirea japonica or Japanese ...

Just kidding, they are the same. The spirea is in the rose family and has the common name meadowsweet. Today, however, I am telling you about an incredible Spirea japonica, or Japanese Meadowsweet ...