''Rosa arvensis'', the field rose, is a species of wild
rose
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be ...
native to Western, Central and Southern Europe.
Names
The plant is variously known as the Field Rose and white-flowered trailing rose. It may also be called Shakespeare’s musk.
Classification
The following synonyms were recognised in October 2018:
* ''Rosa pervirens'' (''Rosa arvensis'' × sempervirens)
* ''Rosa polliniana'' (''Rosa arvensis'' × gallica)
* ''Rosa repens''
''Rosa arvensis'' is closely related to ''
Rosa sempervirens
''Rosa sempervirens'', the evergreen rose, is a species of wild rose native to the Mediterranean. It is a climbing perennial with very prickly stems.
Classification
''Rosa sempervirens'' is most closely related to '' Rosa phoenicia'' and '' ...
'' and ''
Rosa phoenicia
Rosa or De Rosa may refer to:
People
*Rosa (given name)
* Rosa (surname)
*Santa Rosa (female given name from Latin-a latinized variant of Rose)
Places
*223 Rosa, an asteroid
*Rosa, Alabama, a town, United States
* Rosa, Germany, in Thuringia, G ...
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Description
The plant can grow to be between tall. Its flowers are white, across, and its fruits ('hips') are red. It blooms in the summer (July in England, May–June in Bulgaria).
Distribution
''Rosa arvensis'' was first identified in England and has been subsequently observed elsewhere in Europe. In England, it can be seen principally in hedges and thickets, while in Bulgaria, it also forms part of the understory of deciduous forests.
It is found in most of the British Isles (except Scotland), France and Belgium, the
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees (; es, Pirineos ; french: Pyrénées ; ca, Pirineu ; eu, Pirinioak ; oc, Pirenèus ; an, Pirineus) is a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. It extends nearly from its union with the Cantabrian Mountains to ...
(at altitudes up to 1000 m) and in more scattered localities elsewhere in Spain, in the west and south of Germany, the foothills of the Alps (up to 1330 m in the Central and Eastern Alps, up to 1400 m in the
Maritime Alps), in Italy, Western Hungary, in the
Little Carpathians
The Little Carpathians (also: ''Lesser Carpathians'', sk, Malé Karpaty; german: Kleine Karpaten; hu, Kis-Kárpátok) are a low, about 100 km long, mountain range, part of the Carpathian Mountains. The mountains are situated in Western Slov ...
of Slovakia, the Carpathians of Romania, most of the Balkan Peninsula (in Bulgaria up to 1000 m).
[; ; ] It has been reported in isolated occurrences in North-western Africa, southern Anatolia and the Levant, but it is likely these are instead instances of ''R. phoenicia''. In Caucasia it is present only as a cultivated plant.
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Flora of Europe
Garden plants of Europe
Roses
Plants described in 1762
Taxa named by William Hudson (botanist)