Index / Search / Rosa rubiginosa
§1 Plant
Rosa rubiginosa L.
vernacular sweetbriar 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 Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 417 counties across 37 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 32–45 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.2–7.5
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 10 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 10 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Purple
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 31,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 417 counties across 37 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 I ▾
California view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 31 I ▾
- Adams 17001
- Boone 17007
- Champaign 17019
- Cook 17031
- Douglas 17041
- DuPage 17043
- Fulton 17057
- Greene 17061
- Hancock 17067
- Hardin 17069
- Henry 17073
- Jersey 17083
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Lee 17103
- Macoupin 17117
- Mason 17125
- McDonough 17109
- Menard 17129
- Morgan 17137
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Richland 17159
- Stark 17175
- Stephenson 17177
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Will 17197
Indiana view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Allegan 26005
- Benzie 26019
- Berrien 26021
- Calhoun 26025
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Emmet 26047
- Gratiot 26057
- Ingham 26065
- Jackson 26075
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Keweenaw 26083
- Leelanau 26089
- Lenawee 26091
- Mackinac 26097
- Midland 26111
- Muskegon 26121
- Oakland 26125
- Ontonagon 26131
- Ottawa 26139
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 22 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Chemung 36015
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Orange 36071
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Schoharie 36095
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 60 I ▾
- Adams 39001
- Allen 39003
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Brown 39015
- Carroll 39019
- Clark 39023
- Clinton 39027
- Columbiana 39029
- Coshocton 39031
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Defiance 39039
- Delaware 39041
- Erie 39043
- Fairfield 39045
- Fayette 39047
- Franklin 39049
- Fulton 39051
- Geauga 39055
- Greene 39057
- Guernsey 39059
- Hancock 39063
- Harrison 39067
- Henry 39069
- Highland 39071
- Holmes 39075
- Huron 39077
- Jackson 39079
- Jefferson 39081
- Knox 39083
- Licking 39089
- Lorain 39093
- Lucas 39095
- Madison 39097
- Mahoning 39099
- Marion 39101
- Medina 39103
- Miami 39109
- Monroe 39111
- Montgomery 39113
- Morgan 39115
- Morrow 39117
- Noble 39121
- Ottawa 39123
- Pickaway 39129
- Portage 39133
- Preble 39135
- Putnam 39137
- Richland 39139
- Ross 39141
- Sandusky 39143
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Warren 39165
- Wayne 39169
- Williams 39171
- Wood 39173
- Wyandot 39175
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 18 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RORU82 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8174785 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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