Rosa bridgesii

Sierran dwarf rose, Sierran Dwarf Rose

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Sierran dwarf rose is a California native shrub found in the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada in open forest and rocky areas at elevations of 700 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces pink to red flowers 10 to 20 millimeters wide with delicate petals. Growing as a dwarf shrub 10 to 40 centimeters tall with few prickles 3 to 10 millimeters long, it spreads through open rhizomes. Its leaves have 5 to 7 leaflets, with terminal leaflets 10 to 30 millimeters long, widely obovate and double-toothed with glandular margins. The fruit is an ovoid rose hip 7 to 14 millimeters wide, bearing persistent erect sepals.

Habitat: Open forest, rocky areas

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 700-2500 m

Bioregions: CaR, SN

California counties: Tulare, Butte, Plumas, El Dorado, Nevada, Fresno, San Bernardino, Tuolumne, Placer, Mariposa, Kern, Yuba, Madera, Alpine, Sierra, Merced, Shasta, Siskiyou, Calaveras, Tehama, Lassen, Amador, Trinity

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.