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§1 Plant
Rosa virginiana Mill.
vernacular Virginia 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 Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 145 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -18 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 130 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 6 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 6 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Red
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 145 counties across 15 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Kings 36047
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Orange 36071
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schenectady 36093
- Suffolk 36103
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Charlotte 51037
- Culpeper 51047
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Giles 51071
- Halifax 51083
- Hampton (city) 51650
- James City 51095
- Lee 51105
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Powhatan 51145
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Southampton 51175
- Tazewell 51185
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ROVI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/9382645 ↗Record version
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