Rosa virginiana Mill.
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Rosa virginiana, commonly known as the Virginia rose, common wild rose or prairie rose, is a woody perennial in the rose family native to eastern North America, where it is the most common wild rose. It is deciduous, forming a suckering shrub up to 2 metres in height, though often less. The stems are covered in numerous hooked prickles. The leaves are pinnate, usually with between 7 and 9 glossy leaflets. More on Wikipedia ›
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rosa virginiana", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Rosa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub”, “temperate”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Rosa in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: magnolia1000 from Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Benny Mazur from Toledo, OH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Homer D. House, New York State Botanist. Walter B. Starr of the Matthews-Northrup Company, Buffalo, and Harold H. Snyder of the Zeese-Wilkinson Company, New York, photographers., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).
Related
Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.
Other Rosa 126 in the reference
Rosa abietina Needle rose Photo: CC BY-SA, michele barrere
Rosa abyssinica Abyssinian rose Photo: CC BY, Jacky Judas
Rosa acicularis Prickly rose Photo: CC BY, Syd Cannings
Rosa agrestis Small-leaved Sweet-briar Photo: CC BY, Bobo-X
Rosa × alba White rose of York Photo: CC BY, jamie-aa
Rosa alberti Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexander Dubynin
Rosa amblyotis Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Salicyna Rosa × andegavensis Rosaceae 
Rosa arkansana Prairie rose Photo: CC0, author not stated
Rosa arvensis Field rose Photo: CC BY, David Sandler
Rosa balsamica Round-leaved dog-rose Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrea Moro
Rosa banksiae Banksian rose Photo: CC BY, Janetmhm all 127 ›Names & registers
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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