E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

Rosa woodsii Lindl.
Wood's Rose (Clustered Wild Rose; prairie rose)
Rosaceae (Rose family)

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Distribution of Rosa woodsii
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Species Information

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General:
Low to medium shrub, 0.5-2 m tall, spreading by rhizomes and sometimes thicket-forming; stems spindly to stout, erect to spreading, usually with a pair of straight or slightly curved prickles near the base of the leaves, often with weak internodal prickles or bristles especially on young shoots; mature stems reddish- to greyish-brown.
Leaves:
Alternate, deciduous, odd-pinnately compound, the leaf-stalk and axis short-hairy and sometimes glandular; leaflets 5, 7 or 9, elliptic to egg-shaped, 1.5-5 cm long, short- or glandular-hairy to smooth beneath, coarsely single-toothed, the teeth not gland-tipped; stipules entire or glandular-blunt-toothed, short-hairy on the back.
Flowers:
Inflorescence of 1 to 5 stalked flowers in a small, short cluster at the end of a lateral branchlet; corollas pink, saucer-shaped, rather small (3-5 cm across), the petals 5, 12-25 mm long; calyces 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, long-tapering and narrowing then flaring below the tip, 10-20 mm long, rarely stalked-glandular on the back, persistent; ovaries superior but enclosed in the urn-shaped floral tube (hypanthium); stamens numerous.
Fruits:
Achenes, numerous, stiffly long-hairy on one side, enclosed by the fleshy hypanthium, which ripens into a dark red, globe-shaped to ellipsoid hip 6-12 mm long.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

USDA Species Characteristics

Flower Colour:
Red
Blooming Period:
Late Spring
Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Red
Present from Summer to Fall
Source:  The USDA

Habitat / Range

Dry rocky slopes, open forests and clearings, and moist gullies, draws and streambanks in grasslands and savanna in the steppe and montane zones; frequent in S and C BC east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains, infrequent northward; E to SK and S to WI, MO, TX and CA.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Ecology

Ecological Framework for Rosa woodsii

The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)

Site Information
Value / Class

Minimum

Average

Maximum

Elevation (metres) 13 886 2130
Slope Gradient (%) 0 19 100
Aspect (degrees)
[0 - N; 90 - E; 180 - S; 270 - W]
0 200 360
Soil Moisture Regime (SMR)
[0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic;
8 - hydric]
0 3 8
Modal Nutrient Regime
Class
C
Number of field plots
 species was recorded in:
963
Modal BEC Zone Class
IDF
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in: BG(121), BWBS(15), CWH(4), ESSF(12), ICH(79), IDF(469), MS(68), PP(116), SBS(57)

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