NameThatPlant.net: Rosa palustris

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Rosales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rosa palustris FAMILY Rosaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Swamp Rose at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rosa palustris FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-11-011:

Rosa palustris FAMILY Rosaceae

COMMON NAME:
Swamp Rose

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Rosa palustris FAMILY Rosaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Rosa palustris FAMILY Rosaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 097-11-011:
Rosa palustris FAMILY Rosaceae

1260

Shrub
Perennial

Habitat: Swamp forests, bogs, fens, seeps, streamsides, tidal swamps, beaver ponds, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain, NC Piedmont & Carolina Mountains (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA & SC)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems armed with paired prickles at the nodes; prickles and bristles rare or absent along the internodes

LEAVES:
Deciduous
Odd-pinnately compound: 5-9 leaflets
Alternate
Stipules conspicuous, entire, ciliate, often glandular-ciliate, mostly adnate

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pink
Radially symmetrical
5 united sepals
5 petals
Numerous stamens
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Red
Hip

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