Scientific Name: Rosa woodsii
Common Name: native rose, Wood's rose
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: B.C. east of Cascades, B.C. west of Cascades, U.S. - northwest, U.S. - southwest
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Twiggy, Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Native planting
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Elliptic, Obovate, Serrate
Flowers: Cyme, Pink, May-Jun
Fruit: Aggregate fruit, Achene, Edible, (Accessory tissue), Red, Sep, (Persistent)
Key ID Features:
Low to medium shrub to 2m tall, spreading by rhizomes and sometimes thicket-forming; stems spindly to stout, erect to spreading, usually with a pair of straight or slightly curved prickles near the base of the leaves, often with weak internodal prickles or bristles especially on young shoots; mature stems reddish- to greyish-brown; leaflets obovate to elliptic, 1-3(-5)cm long, short- or glandular-hairy to smooth beneath, coarsely single-toothed, the teeth not gland-tipped; inflorescence of 1 to 5 stalked flowers in a small, short cluster at the end of a lateral branchlet; corollas pink, saucer-shaped, rather small (3-5cm across), the petals 5, 12-25mm long; calyces 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, long-tapering and narrowing then flaring below the tip, 10-20mm long; fruits are achenes, numerous, stiffly long-hairy on one side, enclosed by fleshy accessory tissue, which ripens into a dark red, globe-shaped to ellipsoid hip 6-12mm long. (Modified from E-Flora BC. and the Index of Garden Plants)