The understory and riparian shrub cover feature snowberry, spiraea, ninebark, serviceberry, and red-twig dogwood. Sorbaria sorbifolia, the false spiraea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. Swamps include willow thickets, red-osier dogwoods, spiraea, and other small shrubs. Virginia sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum), Virginia spiraea (Spiraea virginiana). It is also found scattered among low bushes of "Rhododendron micranthum" and "Spiraea pubescens". The asteroid was named after "Spiraea", a genus of plants. Prunus virginiana, Rubus idaeus and another unknown Rubus species, Solanum tuberosum, Spiraea alba var. This species forms an interspecific hybrid with "Spiraea japonica" L. fil. HMS "Spiraea" was a of the British Royal Navy. It has often been treated as a variety of "Spiraea alba" (white or narrowleaf meadowsweet). It prefers forest habitats, and its caterpillars feed on "Spiraea". "Spiraea" plants are hardy, deciduous-leaved shrubs. "Spiraea chamaedryfolia" is a shrub reaching a height of . The brown fruit, which persists after flowering, is a distinctive feature of all "Spiraea" species.