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

Rosa canina L.
dog rose
Rosaceae (Rose family)

Introduction to Vascular Plants

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Species Information

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General:
Medium to tall shrub, 1 to 3 m tall, often thicket-forming; stems stout, erect to arching, armed with flattened, curved or hooked prickles; mature stems olive-green.
Leaves:
Alternate, deciduous, odd-pinnately compound; leaflets 5 or 7, elliptic to egg-shaped, 1-4 cm long, mostly smooth, coarsely 1- or 2-saw-toothed, the teeth often gland-tipped.
Flowers:
Inflorescence of 1 to 5 stalked flowers at the end of a lateral branchlet; corollas white to pinkish, saucer-shaped, 5-7 cm across, the petals 5, 20-25 mm long; calyces smooth, 5-lobed, the lobes 10-20 mm long, some of them with narrow, toothed lateral segments, reflexed after flowering, falling off before the fruit ripens; ovaries superior but enclosed in the urn-shaped floral tube (hypanthium); stamens numerous.
Fruits:
Achenes, enclosed by the fleshy hypanthium, which ripens into a scarlet, globe- to egg-shaped or ellipsoid hip 1-2 cm long.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Habitat / Range

Mesic to dry roadsides, open fields and abandoned homesteads in the lowland and steppe zones; rare in SW and SC BC; introduced from Eurasia.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Climate

The climate type for this species, as reported in the: "British Columbia plant species codes and selected attributes. Version 6 Database" (Meidinger et al. 2008), is not evaluated, unknown or variable.

Synonyms and Alternate Names

Rosa corymbifera Borkh.

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