§1 Plant
Rosa canina L.
vernacular dog rose — species · Rosaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Subshrub, Vine
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rosaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Rosa
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 150 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 150 counties across 17 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 17 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 43 I ▾
- Allen 39003
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Carroll 39019
- Clermont 39025
- Columbiana 39029
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Defiance 39039
- Delaware 39041
- Franklin 39049
- Fulton 39051
- Geauga 39055
- Hamilton 39061
- Hancock 39063
- Hardin 39065
- Harrison 39067
- Henry 39069
- Hocking 39073
- Huron 39077
- Knox 39083
- Lake 39085
- Licking 39089
- Lorain 39093
- Madison 39097
- Mahoning 39099
- Marion 39101
- Medina 39103
- Miami 39109
- Morrow 39117
- Ottawa 39123
- Perry 39127
- Pickaway 39129
- Portage 39133
- Preble 39135
- Seneca 39147
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Union 39159
- Wayne 39169
- Williams 39171
- Wood 39173
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 13 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ROCA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3002461 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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