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Species roses growing wild in your area?

nikthegreek
10 years ago

Do roses grow wild where close to where you live or in the greater area? What species of roses are native over there? Any pics?

I haven't noticed any species roses growing wildly in my immediate vicinity but varieties of R. canina and R. sempervirens do grow on the hills surrounding Athens. Elsewhere in Greece one can also find R. gallica and R. arvensis. R. phoenica and R. montana can also be found in isolated habitats but they're quite rare.
Nik

Comments (18)

  • melissa_thefarm
    10 years ago

    I'm in the province of Piacenza in Italy, in the northern foothills of the Appenines. Dog roses are the commonest wild rose locally, R. canina and possibly related species, of which my 'Flora Piacentina' informs me there are a number found in the province, but my botanical knowledge isn't sufficient to allow me to differentiate them, though I see variations. R. gallica is also common, often growing in ditches by the side of the road, and I've seen R. arvensis. According to the 'Flora' R. spinosissima is common in the hills, but I don't recall ever seeing it. There are other rose species listed for the province, some found only in a few sites, others growing at higher elevations.
    Melissa

  • Tessiess, SoCal Inland, 9b, 1272' elev
    10 years ago

    I've seen Rosa californica and Rosa spithamea growing wild in my area. Also I am only about a mile and a half away from Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden which specializes in California natives and they have a lovely collection of CA species roses. They grow them in plant communities so that one can see what other plants they would normally have as companions.

    Here is a current list of species roses they have growing on the grounds (they also have an impressive list of native rose seeds collected from various counties around the state, plus a few from Baja California (Mexico)):

  • ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
    10 years ago

    The only place I've seen wild roses is in the Sierras and at Palomar Mountain (of the famed observatory) which is about an hour away from us, but I'm unable to identify either variety, and neither looked spectacular in any way, just low thickets. There was the lovely wild fragrance, though.

    Ingrid

  • Campanula UK Z8
    10 years ago

    Both canina and eglantine (rubiginosa) thrive in Norfolk......but our area is most notable for the little spinossissima, Dunwich Rose which has extraordinary tolerance to seaspray, growing in the dunes by the North sea. R.arvensis can still be found in older hedgerows, scrambling on banks.

  • bluegirl_gw
    10 years ago

    R. bracteata, surprisingly. Used to be quite a nuisance in my old warmer zone (introduced) but I've also seen some here, along creek bottoms.

    Beautiful flowers, horrid canes form huge hummocks 10' tall that will cover pastures along TX coastal regions. Has to be bulldozed, chained, sprayed &/or burned, repeatedly, to clear it out.

  • harborrose_pnw
    10 years ago

    I've found r. nutkana growing in a number of open places and r. gymnocarpa at the edge of some woods here. There are some others in a native plant area I've seen but I am not sure what they are. Maybe next spring I'll find an id for them. It's a lot of fun to look.

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    r. gymnocarpa

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  • mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)
    10 years ago

    By far the most common rose here is feral multiflora. There is more than enough of it to seriously dampen anyone's enthusiasm for small clusters of white flowers. The smell is interesting, and practically everywhere.

    If you know where to look, there are places the multiflora is replaced by setigera. Someday the camera and I will head south. There is a place where the road turns to little better than dirt as it heads down to river level. Then it goes over a creek heading into one of the Hudson River tidal bays. After a short distance, it takes a sharp turn to go over another creek. If you miss that turn, you'll end up in a thicket of setigera.

    Other wild roses are out there, but much harder to find. Virginiana may be the only other one we've seen out of a garden. In the garden there are a lot of species.

  • roseblush1
    10 years ago

    R. spithamea, R. pisocarpa, and R. gymnocarpa are native to my county. All of the other species roses were brought here by humans, birds or animals. R. woodsii, R. canina, and R. californica are quite common in this area.

    Smiles,
    Lyn

  • mariannese
    10 years ago

    I live in central Sweden, a country with a meagre flora compared to the Continent. There are only 6 or 7 native species of roses although there are many garden escapes like multiflora, rugosa, gallica, villosa and others. The most common in my area and north of Lake Malar in general is Rosa dumalis with Rosa canina more common south of this long lake. They are similar but the dumalis flowers are a little stronger pink. It's a very common wild rose around here and there are several in my garden, sown by birds. The photo is from across the street, on public land.

  • Ronn Bonites
    10 years ago

    I've been actually doing some research on this for a while now. It's really hard to find roses here in the Philippines and even more so with species roses since people aren't familiar with what roses really look like in the wild. When you say "rose" or "rosas" here, people will only recognize modern, double-flowered roses. Botanical records have stated that species roses that were last spotted in the 90's were R. luciae (also known as R. philippinensis, and the species from which wichurana came) and R. transmorriensis Hayata (a.k.a. R. luzoniensis).

    The former originally came from Japan while the latter is native to Taiwan. Both grow in Luzon and the latter is said to have grown in our mountainous regions.
    HMF states Japanese records show that R. bracteata came from Cagayan River on Luzon to Japan around the 1800's so I guess R. bracteata is our native rose.

    So far I haven't been to the mountains much to actually look out for those roses but one day I'll plan to see them growing in my country and maybe grow them in my garden. A thing to note is that all of these roses are white. Quite a coincidence. :D

    This post was edited by Resolute_Noir on Wed, Dec 11, 13 at 7:17

  • mendocino_rose
    10 years ago

    I've forgotten the name of the little rose that grows wild here. it is most extremely thorny to keep the deer off with small leaves and very small dark pink single blooms.

  • jacqueline9CA
    10 years ago

    This one grows wild up in Trinity County in No Cal - I have no idea who it is.

    Jackie

  • nikthegreek
    Original Author
    10 years ago

    This last one looks like the R. gymnocarpa shown in a previous post.
    Nik

  • roseblush1
    10 years ago

    Jackie ......

    I agree that your rose is probably R. gymnocarpa as it is native to Trinity County.

    The foliage in your photo looks very much like the foliage in this photo on HMF.

    Smiles,
    Lyn

    Here is a link that might be useful: R. gymnocarpa on HMF

  • seil zone 6b MI
    10 years ago

    I'm sure there is some species rose that grows wild in Michigan but I live in such an urban area that I've never encountered any. I would be curious to know what it is though if anyone out there can tell me.

  • harborrose_pnw
    10 years ago

    Here's a fun tool, a plant database from the USDA with distribution maps. I pulled up all the plants on the USDA plants data base that are "rosa." Scroll down a ways - There are some pictures but also a map of the places in the US that a particular species is found. Gean

    Here is a link that might be useful: USDA plant database - search

  • harborrose_pnw
    10 years ago

    Whoops - all the data disappeared - just hit "go" in the search box on the top left where the word "rosa" is and all the info will reappear. Maybe.

  • jacqueline9CA
    10 years ago

    Thanks Lyn - it does look like r. gymnorcarpa. Next summer I will take better pictures - there is a bush about a block from our cabin that is in full bloom in June (for about a week) - I will try to catch it, and also hips and buds.

    Jackie