Scientific Name: Rosa rugosa
Common Name: rugosa rose
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China, South Asia / India
Hardiness Zone: Zone 2: (-46 to -40 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Upright
Form: Irregular, Round
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Accent plant, Attract beneficial insects, Cut flower or foliage, Erosion control, Fragrance, Group or mass planting, Hedge row, Perennial border, Security/barrier
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Acidic, Rocky or gravelly or dry
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Leathery, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Rugose, Pubescent, Odd-pinnate, Elliptic, Oblong, Serrate, Serrulate
Flowers: Cyme, White, Violet, Pink, Magenta, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Achene, Edible, (Accessory tissue), Orange, Red, Sep-Oct, (Persistent)
Key ID Features:
Large, vase-shaped shrub with stems covered in densely spaced prickles of various sizes (most 3-11mm long), and straighter and narrower to base than most other roses; leaves alternate, heavily veined, rugose, pinnately compound, 8-15cm long, stipules adnate (typical of roses), leaflets (5-)7(-9), elliptic-oblong, most 5-7cm long x 2-4cm wide, rugose (deeply wrinkled), glossy, dark green, undersides slightly pubescent, margin serrulate; flowers solitary, most 5-9cm wide, 5-many petals, white, pink-red-magenta.