English

Wikispecies

Noun

steeplebush ‎(usually uncountable, plural steeplebushes)

1. Spiraea tomentosa, a plant with narrow pyramidal clusters of flowers and a dense woolly tomentum.
   • 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