Virginia Sweetspire

September 30, 2025

Virginia Sweetspire (Itea virginica) showing off its colors of autumn.

This Sweetspire is native to the southeast United States, blooming in May and June with fragrant, cylindrical, brushlike inflorescences that attract many bees and butterflies. Next come seedheads that attract songbirds.

Growing to 4 or 5 feet tall, often found in swamps, stream banks, and floodplains. 

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Brenda Clements Jones

Brenda is a certified Virginia Master Naturalist, a Habitat Defender for Shenandoah National Park, and a devoted fan of Mother Nature. She lives in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Shenandoah National Park, and hikes up to the higher elevations of her mountain often to see what nature is up to. Her constant hiking companion is a camera that captures nature as it unfolds through the seasons. It’s her goal to share the natural world around her through her photographs.