Native to Japan, Korea; introduced into Alabama, Arkansas, Bulgaria, Connecticut, Georgia, Germany, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, Pennsylvania (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)
37.87544, -122.238724
Location Remarks
Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Spiraea
Specific Epithet
thunbergii
Authorship
Siebold ex Blume
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 2.4
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.2
Global rank
#197,116 of 335,497
Top 59%
Extinction probability
10%