Rosa nutkana

Nootka rose

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Nootka rose is a native shrub found in thickets and forest edges, forming dense clusters across Pacific Northwest regions at elevations from 0 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces soft pink flowers 15 to 25 millimeters wide with delicate, slightly overlapping petals. Growing 1.5 to 2 meters tall with distinctive curved or straight prickles 10 to 20 millimeters long, it develops into spreading, dense thicket-forming shrubs. Its compound leaves feature 5 to 7 leaflets, with terminal leaflets 15 to 50 millimeters long, wide-elliptic in shape and slightly hairy along the leaf axis. The fruit develops as a spherical rose hip 13 to 20 millimeters wide, with persistent erect sepals and multiple small achenes.

California counties: Humboldt, Del Norte, Fresno, Mendocino, Siskiyou, Marin, Sonoma

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