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§1 Plant
Rosa rubiginosa L.
vernacular sweetbriar rose — species · Rosaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Subshrub
- 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
· 178 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–45 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.2–7.5
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 10 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 10 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Purple
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 31,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 178 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Chemung 36015
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Orange 36071
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schoharie 36095
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 13 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RORU82 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8174785 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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