Rosa gymnocarpa

Wood rose, Wood Rose

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Wood rose is a California native shrub found in various bioregions, ranging from coastal to mountain habitats at moderate elevations. Flowering from May to July, this rose produces delicate pink to red flowers approximately 10 millimeters wide with multiple petals. Growing as a loose, open shrub with slender stems armed with few to many small prickles 2 to 8 millimeters long, it develops an irregular, somewhat sprawling form. Its compound leaves feature leaflets with double-toothed margins, typically glabrous with a generally smooth leaf axis that may have occasional glandular elements. The fruit develops as an ellipsoid to nearly spherical structure 4 to 12 millimeters wide, bearing small, persistent sepals.

California counties: Humboldt, Sonoma, Mendocino, San Mateo, Siskiyou, Plumas, Sutter, Modoc, Fresno, Trinity, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Butte, Del Norte, San Diego, Lake, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Sierra, Santa Clara, Alameda, Marin, Shasta, Glenn, Amador, Contra Costa, Tehama, El Dorado, Nevada, San Francisco, Yuba, Colusa, San Benito, Santa Barbara, Calaveras, Solano, Mariposa

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