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Rosa bracteata H.L.Wendl.

Macartney rose, Macartney's rose

Climate known 62 photographs Temperate garden plant
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Every figure on this page is derived from public data by a stated rule and says its source; nothing here is written by a person or a model, except the Wikipedia passage, which is quoted and marked as such. How it is made.

Summary

Rosa bracteata, commonly known as the Macartney rose, is a species of rose native to southern China and Taiwan that has become invasive in parts of the United States following its introduction as an ornamental plant. It is the only wild species in the section Bracteatae of the genus Rosa. In 2026, a chromosome-scale genome assembly of Rosa bracteata was published, providing a genomic resource for rose evolution and breeding studies.

Text from Wikipedia, “Rosa bracteata”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
H.L.Wendl.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Nansei-shoto +1
Wild records
257 in range· 82 open

At a glance

Warmest month
30°C
Jul, mean day; nights 26 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1569mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jun 233 mm (CHELSA)
Light
17–38DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a temperate garden plant by the genus Rosa, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a summer growing season, March to September in the northern hemisphere (March to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1569 mm a year, wettest June at 233 mm, driest December at 45 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 17 to 38 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 5.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Ernestella bracteata (H.L.Wendl.) Germ.; Rosa bracteata Sieber; Rosa bracteata Sieber ex C.Presl; Rosa bracteata var. taiwanensis S.S.Ying; Rosa brevikensis (Almq.) Lindstr. and 4 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant by the genus Rosa, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, March to September in the northern hemisphere (March to September at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1236 mm of 1569 mm) falls in March to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 23.1 °C against a yearly mean of 19.6 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: September to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1569 mm a year, wettest June at 233 mm, driest December at 45 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1569 mm a year at the habitat, 1236 mm of it March to September. Wettest month June at 233 mm, driest December at 45 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1241 mm to 2540 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 17 to 38 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 17 to 38 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 5.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 5.0 °C, the absolute minimum 0.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.3 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 7.5 °C in January (across the envelope cells 0.1 °C to 17.0 °C), warmest day 29.8 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 5.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 59 to 66% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 13 °C in Jan to 30 °C in Jul; mean night from 8 °C in Jan to 26 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1569 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 137 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 0.3 °C and the 99th-percentile day 33.3 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost33.3° 99th-percentile day (undated)0.3° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 17–38RH 59–66 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 137 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C13 / 8–2013 / 9–2016 / 13–2221 / 17–2425 / 21–2728 / 25–2930 / 27–3329 / 28–3228 / 26–2924 / 22–2619 / 16–2415 / 11–21
Night °C8 / 0–178 / 2–1710 / 6–1915 / 11–2220 / 16–2423 / 21–2626 / 24–2725 / 23–2723 / 20–2520 / 14–2315 / 8–2110 / 2–18
Rain mm62 / 33–14591 / 68–164148 / 103–196148 / 106–214200 / 126–266233 / 180–332167 / 125–259186 / 129–318154 / 103–33169 / 39–22466 / 31–18745 / 31–140
DLI17 / 16–2120 / 18–2324 / 21–2829 / 26–3231 / 28–3532 / 28–3638 / 34–4134 / 31–3829 / 26–3325 / 22–2819 / 18–2317 / 16–21
RH %60 / 58–6462 / 59–6564 / 60–6565 / 61–6765 / 61–6966 / 62–7165 / 61–7266 / 62–7064 / 61–6760 / 58–6460 / 58–6359 / 57–63

Each figure is the median across the 137 grid cells holding the 217 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1285:5987 (25.725, 119.375). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 0.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 5.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.3 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 137 distinct grid cells holding the 217 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1285:5987 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 25.50_119.375, lapse-corrected -89 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 26 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan· introduced: Madagascar, West Himalaya, New South Wales, Queensland, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
Kew's description“climbing shrub or liana” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker24.545, 120.706 · in the densest population, 145 records (56% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 257 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 82 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 21 km away. 1271 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 40 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 257 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (8).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Rosa bracteata, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Photosynthetic response of Japanese rose species Rosa bracteata and Rosa rugosa to temperature and light
Yoshihiro Ueda, S. Nishihara, H. Tomita, Y. Oda (2000) · Scientia Horticulturae
Red imported fire ant predation on Crested Caracara nestlings in south Texas.
V. M. Dickinson (1995) · Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida)
Seasonal Response of Macartney Rose and Huisache to Herbicides
R. E. Meyer, R. W. Bovey, T. E. Riley, T. O. Flynt (1976) · Journal of Range Management
Influence of Mowing and Spraying Dates on Herbicidal Control of Macartney Rose
R. H. Haas, S. K. Lehman, H. L. Morton (1970) · Weed Science
Macartney Rose (Rosa bracteata) Response to Herbicide and Mowing Treatments
Stephen F. Enloe, William N. Kline, Jatinder S. Aulakh, Rachel K. Bethke (2013) · Invasive Plant Science and Management
Seasonal Variation in Macartney Rose (Rosa bracteata) Response to Herbicide Treatment
Stephen F. Enloe, Dwight K. Lauer (2016) · Weed Technology
Introduction of rowan and bird cherry in the North-East of Russia
G. A. Rengarten (2022) · Subtropical and ornamental horticulture

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Rosa 15 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 22 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.