Scientific Name: Rosa 'Meidomonac'
Common Name: Bonica rose, floribunda rose
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Dense, Spreading, Twiggy
Form: Mounded
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Accent plant, Attract butterflies, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Security/barrier, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lustrous, Odd-pinnate, Obovate, Ovate, Serrate
Flowers: Flowers clustered, Pink, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Achene, (Accessory tissue), Red, Oct
Key ID Features:
Compact rose with dense foliage; stems with brown prickles ~5mm long that tend to curve downwards; leaves pinnately compound, (3-)5(-7) broadly ovate leaflets, most 2-4cm long x 2-3cm wide with the terminal one being the largest, base rounded, apex shortly acuminate, glossy, dark green, margin serrate, stipules with fringed margins fused to the portion of the petiole; cymes of 1-5 flowers each 6-8cm wide, many pink petals, unscented, May-Oct.