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Itea virginica
Virginia Sweetspire
Saxifragaceae
Located in landscape bed by loading dock of WBY.
- leaves deciduous, elliptic to oblong
- leaves alternate, small serrations
- leaves dark green in summer, red in fall, held late
- buds small, alternate, red/green
- stems green, reddish in sun
- habit multi-stemmed suckering shrub
- habit twiggy, with aching stems 3'-5'
- flowers white, fragrant, in early summer
- flowers in dense racemes
- fruit are brown persistent capsules, in racemes
- plant suckers underground and colonizes
View Itea
virginica page in the UConn Plant Database
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