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Ground Rose (rosa spithamea)
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Shrub
Pink
5 Petals
Alternate
Typical Height
Deciduous
Has Berries
CA Endemic
Description
Height to 2 ft.
CA Bloom Apr - Jul
The Ground Rose is found at the edge of forests and in
chaparral
.
It grows and blooms enthusiastically after fire or a major disturbance.
Similar plants
.
AKA Sonoma Rose
Rose Family (Rosaceae)
This striking flower grows low to the ground. Each petal has two rounded
lobes
.
Leaf-like
sepals
stick directly out from red rose hips. Both sepals and rose hip are covered in gland-tipped hairs - a good ID mark.
Prickles are slender and straight.
Compound leaflets
are oval with ragged teeth.
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The Ground Rose lives up to its name, growing closely to the ground. It's a relatively small rose, about an inch across, which its scientific nam ...
Perhaps because it has evolved growing low to the ground, this beautiful rose tolerates shade better than its taller-growing cousins. It forms in ...
[[Leaflets]] have a mixture of big and small serrations; this is called double-toothed. The teeth are often tipped with a sticky gland. In the f ...
[[Prickles]] emerge from under the skin in a fairly widely spaced random arrangement. They're slender, straight and fairly long.
This top view of the rose shows five double-lipped petals, each separate from the other. Many [[stamens]] radiate outward and upward from a [[hypan ...
These flowers are past maturity and are disintegrating, leaving their green base (the [[hypanthium]]). The hypanthium holds the maturing seeds (one f ...
This photo summarizes what to look for in a ground rose. 1) gland-tipped hairs that stick out from the flower stalk, rose hip and sepals. 2) l ...