Blooms: May - August
Habit: shrub
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Distribution: West of and on the east slope of the Cascades, British Columbia to California, and in the mountains of Idaho and eastern Oregon
Habitat: Moist or dry woods, sea level to mid-elevations in the mountains
Habit: shrub
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Distribution: West of and on the east slope of the Cascades, British Columbia to California, and in the mountains of Idaho and eastern Oregon
Habitat: Moist or dry woods, sea level to mid-elevations in the mountains
Species Description:
General: Slender, lax shrubs 3-13 dm. tall, usually bristly with slender prickles, occasionally unarmed.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, deciduous, odd-pinnate with 5-9 leaflets, with stalked glands on the leaf rachis; leaflets elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 1-4 cm. long and 0.5-3 cm. wide, doubly serrate, the teeth gland-tipped, otherwise glabrous.
Flowers: Flowers small, scattered at branch ends, usually solitary, the pedicel slender, glandular; sepals 5, 5-12 mm. long, broadly lanceolate at the base contracted to a slender, tailed tip, early-deciduous; petals 5, 1-1.5 cm. long, light pink to deep rose; stamens numerous, pistils many, the styles early-deciduous.
Fruits: Hips 1 cm. long, pear-shaped, scarlet or vermillion.
General: Slender, lax shrubs 3-13 dm. tall, usually bristly with slender prickles, occasionally unarmed.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, deciduous, odd-pinnate with 5-9 leaflets, with stalked glands on the leaf rachis; leaflets elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 1-4 cm. long and 0.5-3 cm. wide, doubly serrate, the teeth gland-tipped, otherwise glabrous.
Flowers: Flowers small, scattered at branch ends, usually solitary, the pedicel slender, glandular; sepals 5, 5-12 mm. long, broadly lanceolate at the base contracted to a slender, tailed tip, early-deciduous; petals 5, 1-1.5 cm. long, light pink to deep rose; stamens numerous, pistils many, the styles early-deciduous.
Fruits: Hips 1 cm. long, pear-shaped, scarlet or vermillion.
Accepted Name:
Rosa gymnocarpa Nutt.Synonyms:
Rosa dasypoda Greene
Rosa helleri Greene
Rosa leucopsis Greene
Rosa prionota Greene
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
Rosa gymnocarpa
Additional Resources:
PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Rosa gymnocarpa specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Rosa gymnocarpa specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Rosa gymnocarpa treatment.
E-Flora BC: Rosa gymnocarpa atlas page.
CalPhotos: Rosa gymnocarpa images.
USDA Plants Database: Rosa gymnocarpa.
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