steeplebush
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
steeple + bush
Noun
steeplebush (usually uncountable, plural steeplebushes)
- A plant with narrow pyramidal clusters of flowers and a dense woolly tomentum.
- Spiraea tomentosa, of eastern North American
- Spiraea douglasii, of western North America
- 2007 August 8, Andy Newman, “In Case of Apocalypse Later, a Plan to Ensure America’s Regreening”, in New York Times:
- They passed many species they had already collected for the Millennium project — maple-leaved vibernum, steeplebush with spiky stalks of tiny pink flowers, black birch — as well as a particularly impressive specimen of that quintessential Staten Island forest dweller, Automobilius burnedouticus.
Synonyms
- hardhack