General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 1 - 3 feet, less frequently to 6 feet
Plant Spread: 5 - 10 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Other: Dark green hips, maturing to bright red.
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
Bloom Size: 2"-3"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: 3 months at 40ºF
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Cuttings: Tip
Stolons and runners
Pollinators: Bees
Miscellaneous: With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth

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Common names
  • Pasture Rose
  • Rose
  • Sand Rose
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Rosa carolina
  • Synonym: Rosa lyonii
  • Synonym: Rosa serrulata
  • Synonym: Rosa carolina var. grandiflora
  • Synonym: Rosa caroliniana
  • Synonym: Rosa carolina var. villosa
  • Synonym: Rosa humilis var. grandiflora
  • Synonym: Rosa humilis var. villosa
  • Synonym: Rosa humilis
  • Synonym: Rosa parviflora

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Location: Skillins Greenhouse, Falmouth, Maine
Date: 2023-06-30
Pretty native rose
Location: Southern Maine
Date: 2024-05-06
New leaves and overwintered crimson rose hips
Location: Hoffman, NC (Broad acre lake)
Date: June 7, 2022
Carolina rose #211. RAB page 552, 97-11-12. AG page 162, 33-15-7,
Location: Hoffman, NC (Broad acre lake)
Date: June 7, 2022
Carolina rose #211. RAB page 552, 97-11-12. AG page 162, 33-15-7,
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2016-04-02
Seedling cotyledons

Date: c. 1913
photo from the 1913 catalog, Biltmore Nursery Roses, Asheville, N

Date: 2006-06-11
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/

Photo Courtesy of Prairie Nursery. Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2003-10-08
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2003-05-20
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/

Photo Courtesy of Prairie Nursery. Used with Permission
  • Uploaded by Joy

courtesy Sunlight Gardens, www.sunlightgardens.com
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2003-05-20
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/

Rosa carolina L. Prang, 1879
Location: Hoffman, NC (Broad acre lake)
Date: June 7, 2022
Carolina rose #211. RAB page 552, 97-11-12. AG page 162, 33-15-7,
Comments:
  • Posted by SongofJoy (Clarksville, TN - Zone 6b) on Jan 15, 2012 7:29 AM concerning plant:
    Carolina Rose is a tough and durable rose that occurs throughout the eastern United States in low moist areas. It has 2-inch, pink, single flowers in early summer, followed by bright red rose hips in the fall. This plant makes dense thickets of erect bristly stems to 4 or 5 feet tall. Use it as a hedge or screen and the wild life will appreciate it. It will grow in just about any soil, but needs full sun to produce good flowers, fruits, and a soft red fall leaf color. (Sunlight Gardens)
  • Posted by GardenQuilts (Delray Beach, FL - Zone 10b) on Jul 23, 2015 7:36 PM concerning plant:
    I bought this rose from a "native plant" collection in Lowe's today. Of course, it was own root. I am looking forward to seeing it bloom.
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