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Amur Cherry vs White Meadowsweet

Prunus maackii

Spiraea alba

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Amur Cherry
White Meadowsweet

Amur Cherry is a beautiful, fast-growing ornamental tree. It features attractive bronze/red bark that peels horizontally in strips.

This hardy tree bears white flowers in the spring, black fruit held in clusters in the late summer, and pointy leaves that turn yellow in the fall.

White Meadowsweet is a woody, deciduous shrub that begins to bloom in early summer with small white and pink flowers. Its foliage turns from a light green into an attractive golden-yellow later in the fall.

The White Meadowsweet, also known as Mead-Wort or Bride-Wort, is favored by birds and butterflies but is largely ignored by deer. They produce small brown berries in the summer, and while they are technically edible, they are not sweet and are more desired by wildlife.

Amur Cherry Quick Facts

White Meadowsweet Quick Facts

Zone: 2a
Zone: 3a
Height: 12 m (39 ft)
Height: 1.2 m (4 ft)
Spread: 9 m (30 ft)
Spread: 0.9 m (3 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Moisture: normal, wet
Moisture: normal, wet
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: fast
Life span: short
Life span: short
Suckering: low
Suckering: high

Toxicity: toxic to horses, cattle, etc.)

Fall colour: lemon yellow
Fall colour: golden yellow
Flowers: white, in spring
Flowers: white, small
Berries: black fruit
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Other Names: amur chokecherry
Other Names: mead wort, meadowsweet, narrowleaf meadowsweet, pale bridewort, pipestem