{"id":1467,"date":"2024-07-30T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:37:02","slug":"meadowsweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/meadowsweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadowsweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Spirea alba <\/em><\/h2>\n<h2>Growing Information<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Plant Type:<\/strong> Shrub<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Sunlight:<\/strong> Prefers full sun but tolerates part shade<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Soils:<\/strong> Likes moist soil but can withstand occasional wet or dry soil<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Bloom Time:<\/strong> White to pink flowers bloom late June-early August<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Size:<\/strong> 3-4 feet tall and wide<\/p>\n<p><em>Spirea alba<\/em> is a deciduous shrub in the rose family that grows in a dense, mounding form. It features cone-shaped spires of small flowers in mid-summer, and the leaves showcase beautiful golden-yellow color during the fall. Unappealing to deer and rabbits.<\/p>\n<h2>Garden Companions<\/h2>\n<p>Rose\/Swamp Milkweed (<em>Asclepias incarnata<\/em>), Green and Gold (<em>Chrysogonum virginianum<\/em>), New York Ironweed (<em>Vernonia novaboracensis<\/em>), Common Sneezeweed (<em>Helenium autumnale<\/em>)<\/p>\n<h2>Nature Benefits<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 Host for the larvae of the Spring Azure butterfly<br \/>\n\u2022 Attracts bees, moth, butterflies, and other pollinating insects<br \/>\n\u2022 Attracts songbirds<\/p>\n<h2>Natural Habitat<\/h2>\n<p>Naturally found in bogs, swamps, wet meadow, and along shores or stream banks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Meadowsweet-Fact-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Download Plant Datasheet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Photos<\/h2>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spirea alba Growing Information \u2022 Plant Type: Shrub \u2022 Sunlight: Prefers full sun but tolerates part shade \u2022 Soils: Likes moist soil but can withstand occasional wet or dry soil \u2022 Bloom Time: White to pink flowers bloom late June-early August \u2022 Size: 3-4 feet tall and wide Spirea alba is a deciduous shrub in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shrub"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Meadowsweet_Spiraea-alba.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecodnativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}