| Scientific Name: | Rosa 'Ballerina' |
| Common Name: | Ballerina rose, hybrid musk rose |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Dense, Twiggy |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Container planting, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Lustrous, Odd-pinnate, Oblanceolate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Pink, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Achene, (Accessory tissue), Orange, Red, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stem with reddish-brown prickles ~5mm long that tend to curve downwards; leaves pinnately compound, 5-7 ovate-elliptical leaflets, 2-7cm long x 1-4cm wide with the terminal one being the largest, stipules with fringed margins fused to the portion of the petiole; cymes dense, flowers 3-4cm wide, 5 pale pink petals, Jun-Sep. | |