Rosa woodsii

Woods' rose

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Woods' rose is a native shrub found in western North American mountain and foothill regions, growing in mixed woodland and chaparral habitats at elevations typically ranging from 1,000 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this rose produces delicate pink flowers about 15 to 20 millimeters wide with five rounded petals. Growing as an open or dense thicket-forming shrub, it reaches heights of 50 to 300 centimeters with relatively straight prickles along its stems. Its compound leaves have 5 to 7 leaflets, each terminal leaflet approximately 10 to 40 millimeters long, with obovate-elliptic shape and single-toothed margins. The fruit develops as a small rose hip approximately 9 to 12 millimeters wide, with persistent erect sepals.

California counties: Mono, Inyo, Los Angeles, Placer, El Dorado, San Bernardino, Madera, Del Norte, Fresno, Plumas, Ventura, Sierra, Nevada, Lassen

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