Scientific Name: Spiraea x bumalda 'Dart's Red'
Common Name: Dart's red spirea
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Twiggy, Upright
Form: Mounded, Oval - horizontal, Round
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Group or mass planting, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Serrate
Flowers: Cyme, Pink, Jun-Jul
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Follicle, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, lanceolate, serrated, reddish-purple in fall; flowers dark red fading to rosy pink with age.