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crystal-photo.bsky.social
Bumblebee in flight next to a pink steeplebush #bumblebee #bugsky #steeplebush #macro #insects #flowers #pollinators #nature #photography #insectthursday #pollinatorpals #wildlife #insect #bee #bees #macromonday #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #eastcoastkin
August 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
Buttonbush and steeplebush patch is in full swing. 🌱 #nativeplants
Close-up of steeplebush with just a few pink flowers blooming on a spike of otherwise closed white buds. A buttonbush sphere starting to bloom. More spheres are visible, out of focus, in the background. Wide view of a patch of garden prominently featuring sweet Joe Pye and buttonbush. Pink steeplebush flower spikes interspersed with swamp milkweed leaves.
June 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
lorichirp.bsky.social
For #ColorADay #PinkMon, a bush blossom on a Spiraea douglasii, commonly known as Douglas spirea, hardhack, or steeplebush. #flower #bush #pink #photography #ECK
July 20, 2026 at 2:36 AM
chrisspagani.com
Rose Spirea
I think
We used to call this steeplebush
#naturephotography
July 14, 2024 at 4:54 PM
dongmei960.bsky.social
Steeplebush

#photography #flowers #plants #blossom
#BloomScrolling
July 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
Plants that were not in my 30 days of easy beginner Mid-Atlantic native plants - but could have been. 🌱

Brown-eyed susans
Elderberry
Seedbox
Steeplebush
Brown-eyed susans, Rudbeckia triloba, not yet blooming. An enormous white umbel of elderberry flowers, Sambucus canadensis. An unassuming sprig of seedbox, Ludwigia alternifolia. Several branches on Spiraea tomentosa, steeplebush.
May 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
themonarchgardener.bsky.social
Um.....ooops. I sure hope you all love steeplebush, Spiraea tomentosa. It appears I will have a lot this spring.
January 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
danjbrown97.bsky.social
Steeplebush today
Brown and yellow steeplebush leaves in the sun
December 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
Shrub status check #nativeplants 🌱
Black chokeberry buds, tightly closed, with unfurled leaves. Serviceberry buds, still closed. Blackhaw viburnum leaves, small but open, glossy, and tinged with an earthy red color. Steeplebush leaves, spring green against beige siding that needs to be washed.
April 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
blackcatgarden.bsky.social
Just ordered a bunch of native seeds from the local wildflower library:

Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Purple clematis (Clematis occidentalis)
Steeplebush (Spiraea tomentosa)
Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)

cont...
December 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
Violets good

🌱 #nativeplants
🦀⛵ #Maryland
🌎 #ecoregion65
A patch of garden with loads of violets filling in around aromatic asters, brown eyed susans, cardinal flower, and late boneset. There's a brick border to one side. A silky dogwood shrub starting to leaf out. There are tons of violets in the background. Steeplebush sprouting. There are tons of violets all around.
April 8, 2026 at 1:12 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
Steeplebush before and after
#nativeplants 🌱
June 20, 2024 at 7:45 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
The oldest sphere of flowers here is the same one pictured 3 days ago. Life comes at you fast. 🌱 #nativeplants
A cute white buttonbush sphere in full bloom. A past peak buttonbush sphere, turning brown. A budded buttonbush sphere. In the lower right, out of focus, are two pink steeplebush flower spikes.
June 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
Anyway the rest of this patch is a delight. In addition to the buttonbush, Joe Pye, mountain mint, brown eyed susans, self-heal, wild bergamot, swamp milkweed, and golden alexanders (deep breath) ... the steeplebush, Spiraea tomentosa, is starting to bloom. 🌱 #nativeplants
A spike of steeplebush flowers, still mostly closed and white, with a few starting to open and bloom pink. It's flopped over and bent in the middle, resting on (of course) enchanter's nightshade leaves.
June 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
kwilliam8.bsky.social
Seen recently at Iverson Preserve, Camano Island, Washington. Douglas's spiraea flower, on hardhack steeplebush. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiraea...
July 4, 2026 at 10:37 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
Just soft touches. Maybe this year, more Liatris; more bee balm; more ...

#nativeplants 🌱
Wild bergamot, pink and radial. Liatris, purple and fluffy. A bee in a snazzy outfit on a buttonbush orb with a Carrier condenser photobombing. Steeplebush, flowering pink, giving the impression of pointing like a hound who's found prey.
May 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
jp0610.bsky.social
Spirea tomentosa (steeplebush) seedheads, photos taken this morning. #nativeplants
December 27, 2024 at 11:37 PM
jp0610.bsky.social
A cottontail rabbit rests under a patch of steeplebush (Spirea tomentosa) that it was using as a food source back in January. To the left of the rabbit, many branches with clean cuts from their sharp teeth can be seen. #nativeplants
March 27, 2026 at 5:09 PM
danjbrown97.bsky.social
Steeplebush and Collared Dove today
August 20, 2024 at 7:15 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
Dewdrop odds and ends 🌱 #nativeplants
Blueberry leaves, mostly green with a little hoary overtone and an edge of red Steeplebush leaves in green, yellow, and rusty brown Scarlet bee balm leaves. The largest few are the color you get when you paint deep red over green. A blooming violet, drenched in dew
October 30, 2024 at 2:00 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
I potted up four species of #nativeplants seedlings this afternoon, mostly from winter sowing seeds I collected from my own garden. They are small but they are many. 🌱
Four small nursery pots full of small seedbox seedlings. Nine small nursery pots of Culver's root seedlings. Twenty small nursery pots of cardinal flower seedlings. Six small nursery pots of steeplebush seedlings.
July 1, 2024 at 10:53 PM
silverhawthorne.bsky.social
Planted skullcap, boneset, NJ tea, ironweed, NE aster, snakeroot, germander! The cardinal flower and steeplebush both need a little more time in the winter sowing jugs. Fingers crossed everything takes off! 🌱
June 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
wearegonnafindout.bsky.social
Just a few lil flower pics from today, featuring neat garden geometry #flowerreport #nativeplants 🌱
A little raceme of pink steeplebush flowers, possibly the last of them to bloom Several pale taupe flower heads of sweet scented Joe Pye, not quite open. The leaves look ragged and munched upon A self-heal flower head with its hexagon-like arrangement of tiny pale purple blooms A wild bergamot flower head almost done blooming. The spent flower bases form a fuzzy globe of deep red rings
July 18, 2024 at 12:24 AM
silverhawthorne.bsky.social
Winter sowing update: marshmallow, steeplebush, Rocky Mountain bee plant, snakeroot, skullcap, New England aster, and false indigo are all germinating! Still hoping for others; this is our first year, so we don’t know when to expect what! Gonna have so many #NativePlants! 🌱
March 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
mmmadcccow.bsky.social
Today's #bloomscrolling entries. The first three were from this morning's hike. The fourth one is in the grown up old pasture by the creek. All are native.

1. Evening primrose
2. Common boneset
3. Aster (crooked stem??)
4. Steeplebush
The yellow flowers of evening primrose. Clusters of white flowers on a tall stem. Common boneset a member of the aster family. Blue daisy shaped flowers with a yellow center. One of the asters. Crooked stem aster I think. Elongated cluster of pink flowers. Steeplebush or hardhack.
August 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM