| Scientific Name: | Rosa Meineble cvs. |
| Common Name: | Meidiland carpet rose |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Irregular |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Specimen plant, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Pink, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Follicle, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, (Accessory tissue), Orange, Red, Sep-Oct-Nov, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Low growing compact shrub rose with a creeping habit that is often grown as a ground cover; stems with brown prickles ~5mm long that tend to curve downwards; leaves alternate, pinnately compound, (3-)5-7 broadly ovate-elliptic leaflets, most 2-5cm long x 1-3cm 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 3-10 flowers, most 5-8cm wide, many petals, red, pink, or white, scented, Jun-Oct; rose hips orange-red, 1-2cm long, persistent. | |