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Rosa glauca Pourr.

Red-leaved Rose, Red-leaved Rose (EN), Redleaf rose, Rotblättrige Rose (DE)

Climate known 87 photographs Temperate garden plant
Add one to my plants Sow seed

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Summary

Rosa glauca, the red-leaved rose or redleaf rose, is a species of rose native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, from the Spanish Pyrenees east to Bulgaria, and north to Germany and Poland. It is also found as an introduced species as far north as Scandinavia and Finland.

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

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Pourr.
Native to
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany +13
Wild records
692 in range· 545 open

At a glance

Warmest month
21°C
Jul, mean day; nights 11 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1269mm/yr
12 wet months · peak May 125 mm (CHELSA)
Light
7–37DLI
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: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (April to June and August to December in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 1269 mm a year, wettest May at 125 mm, driest February at 75 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 37 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -13.8 °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 ? delasoii Lagger & Puget ex DeLaSoie; Ozanonia livida (Host) Gand.; Rosa acutiformis (Heinr.Braun) Heinr.Braun; Rosa afzeliana f. decurtata (Schwertschl.) R.Keller & Gams; Rosa afzeliana f. faucium (Schwertschl.) R.Keller & Gams and 45 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: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (April to June and August to December in the northern hemisphere).

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

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (910 mm of 1269 mm) takes 8 months, April to June and August to December. Mean temperature moves 18.0 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: February to June and October to December.

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 1269 mm a year, wettest May at 125 mm, driest February at 75 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1269 mm a year at the habitat, 910 mm of it April to June and August to December. Wettest month May at 125 mm, driest February at 75 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 711 mm to 1941 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: 7 to 37 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 7 to 37 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 4, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

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 -13.8 °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 -13.8 °C, the absolute minimum -27.8 °C, about 117 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 27.5 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -4.9 °C in January (across the envelope cells -12.9 °C to -1.5 °C), warmest day 20.8 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -13.8 °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: 60 to 64% 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 2 °C in Jan to 21 °C in Jul; mean night from -5 °C in Jan to 11 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1269 mm of rain a year, most in May. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 631 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -27.8 °C and the 99th-percentile day 27.5 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°frost27.5° 99th-percentile day (undated)-27.8° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200mm rainDLI 7–37RH 60–64 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 631 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 °C2 / -5–53 / -4–67 / 0–1010 / 3–1315 / 8–1818 / 13–2121 / 16–2321 / 16–2317 / 12–1912 / 8–146 / 1–93 / -4–5
Night °C-5 / -13–-2-5 / -12–-1-2 / -9–11 / -5–45 / -1–99 / 3–1211 / 6–1411 / 6–148 / 2–114 / -2–7-1 / -8–3-4 / -12–-0
Rain mm93 / 50–15575 / 41–13090 / 50–149102 / 44–150125 / 63–184111 / 68–183101 / 64–184105 / 65–185118 / 62–171123 / 60–186113 / 57–169113 / 55–180
DLI9 / 5–1315 / 10–1923 / 17–2830 / 27–3634 / 32–3937 / 33–4237 / 33–4332 / 28–3724 / 19–2916 / 11–2010 / 6–147 / 4–11
RH %63 / 57–6962 / 58–6661 / 58–6360 / 58–6361 / 58–6360 / 58–6360 / 57–6260 / 57–6363 / 60–6464 / 60–6664 / 59–6964 / 58–70

Each figure is the median across the 631 grid cells holding the 683 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 841:3811 (47.925, 10.575). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -27.8 °C, 1st-percentile night -13.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 27.5 °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 631 distinct grid cells holding the 683 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 841:3811 (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 48.00_10.625, lapse-corrected +51 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 710 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.
NativeAustria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Corse, France, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, Central European Russia, Ukraine· introduced: Finland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Belarus, Baltic States, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Québec, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker45.933, 6.324 · in the densest population, 266 records (38% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 692 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 545 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 931 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 9 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 692 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Dmitriy Bochkov, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Martin Scheuch, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Katrin Simon, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

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 glauca, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Chemical and 13C N.M.R. studies on two arabinans from the inner bark of young stems of Rosa glauca
J.P. Joseleau, Gérard Chambat, Michel R. Vignon, F. Barnoud (1977) · Carbohydrate Research
Structure of the Primary Cell Walls of Suspension-Cultured Rosa glauca Cells
G. Chambat, F. Barnoud, J.P. Joseleau (1984) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Structure of the Primary Cell Walls of Suspension-Cultured Rosa glauca Cells
J.P. Joseleau, Gérard Chambat (1984) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
The carbohydrate constituents of the cell wall of suspension cultures of Rosa glauca
Gérard Chambat, J.P. Joseleau, F. Barnoud (1981) · Phytochemistry
13C NMR qualitative and quantitative study of lignin structure synthesized in Rosa glauca calluses
Didier Robert, A. Mollard, F. Barnoud (1989) · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Culture illimitée d'une souche anergiée de Rosa glauca par la technique des suspensions cellulaires
G. Hustache, A. Mollard, F. Barnoud (1975) · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
About finding of Rosa glauca Pourr. (Rosaceae) in the Republic of Mordovia
Anatoliy A. Khapugin (2012) · Russian Journal of Biological Invasions
Algunas plantas novedosas para Teruel, procedentes de Cedrillas
Gonzalo Mateo Sanz, José Luis Lozano Terrazas (2005) · Flora montibérica/Flora montiberica
A Positive Outlook towards the Lesser Known: Wild Rose Brings Hope
(2016) · International Journal of Advanced Research in Botany
De wilde rozen (Rosa L.) van Nederland
Piet A. J. Bakker, Bert Maes, Hans Kruijer (2011) · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Occurrence Download
GBIF.Org User (2021) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Ontogenesis of Prunus pumila and Rosa glauca Pourr. in introduced populations in the Southern Urals and Western Siberia
O. Yu. Vasilyeva, M. S. Lezin, М. В. Козлова (2019) · Bulletin of the State Nikitsky Botanical Gardens

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

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