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Home  /  Plants  /  Budburst Species  /  Rosa arkansana
Phenology Observation Sheet for Deciduous Trees and Shrubs

COMMON NAME

Prairie rose

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Rosa arkansana

ALSO KNOWN AS

Wild rose

Plant family

Rose (Rosaceae)

Plant group

Deciduous Trees and Shrubs

This rose has mostly pink flowers that can fade to white, thorny stems, and alternate leaves with 5 to 9 leaflets. It can grow up to 18 inches in height.
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Identification hints

This rose has mostly pink flowers that can fade to white, thorny stems, and alternate leaves with 5 to 9 leaflets. It can grow up to 18 inches in height.
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Did you know?

Prairie rose is very drought resistant. According to the USFS, this plant produced an unusually large crop of fruit during the "Great Drought of 1934" in the Great Plains. Navajo and Dakota tribes have steeped the prairie rose hips in water and used the solution to treat eye inflammation.
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
Arkansas , Colorado , Iowa , Illinois , Indiana , Kansas , Massachusetts , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri , Montana , North Dakota , Nebraska , New Mexico , New York , Ohio , Oklahoma , South Dakota , Texas , Wisconsin , Wyoming
HABITAT
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