Spiraea splendens

Rose meadowsweet

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Rose meadowsweet is a California native shrub found in the Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, and Sierra Nevada in moist, rocky areas including serpentine and conifer forest at elevations of 550 to 3,400 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces rose-colored flowers small and delicate in clusters. Growing 20 to 90 centimeters tall with upright, glabrous to sparsely fine-hairy stems, it forms a compact, bushy structure. Its leaves are generally ovate, 1 to 7 centimeters long with petioles less than 3 millimeters, creating a clean, elegant foliage profile. In rocky mountain habitats, this meadowsweet forms graceful clusters that blend beautifully into alpine and subalpine landscapes.

Habitat: Moist, rocky areas including serpentine, conifer forest

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 550-3400 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, SNH

California counties: Tulare, Mono, Tuolumne, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa, Del Norte, Siskiyou, El Dorado, Shasta, Trinity, Alpine, Butte, Fresno, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sierra, Amador, Lassen, Calaveras, San Bernardino

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.