Rosa rubiginosa |
Rosa sect. Caninae |
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sweetbrier rose, small-flowered sweetbrier |
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Habit | Coarse shrub 1-2 m. tall, with well-developed, flattened, unequal, strongly curved or hooked prickles, the foliage sweetly aromatic. | |
Leaves | Leaves alternate, deciduous, odd-pinnate with 5-7 firm leaflets; leaflets broadly elliptic to sub-orbicular, 1-2.5 cm. long, doubly serrate with gland-tipped teeth, the lower surface with stalked glands and hairs. |
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Flowers | Flowers in small clusters or solitary, on short, stout, glandular-bristly pedicels; sepals 5,1-2 cm. long, with stalked glands and some slender lateral lobes, spreading, deciduous at maturity; petals 5, 1.5-2 cm. long, bright pink; stamens numerous; pistils many, the styles densely short-hairy. |
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Fruits | Hips sub-globose or ovoid, 1-1.5 cm. long, glabrous, bright red. |
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Rosa rubiginosa |
Rosa sect. Caninae |
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Flowering time | June-July | |
Habitat | Roadsides, thickets, shorelines, pastures, and other disturbed, open areas. | |
Distribution | Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington, though more common west of the crest; southern British Columbia to California, east to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, further east from the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin | Introduced Eurasia and northern Africa | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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