Dog Rose | Plant Information

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Plant Data

Flowering Months:

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Order:

Rosales

Family:

Rosaceae (Rose)

Also in this family:

Alpine Lady's-mantle, Barren Strawberry, Bearberry Cotoneaster, Bird Cherry, Blackthorn, Bramble, Bullate Cotoneaster, Burnet Rose, Cherry Laurel, Common Agrimony, Common Hawthorn, Common Lady's-mantle, Common Whitebeam, Crab Apple, Creeping Chinese Bramble, Creeping Cinquefoil, Cultivated Apple, Cultivated Pear, Dewberry, Dropwort, Entire-leaved Cotoneaster, Firethorn, Fragrant Agrimony, Franchet's Cotoneaster, Garden Lady's-mantle, Goatsbeard Spiraea, Great Burnet, Greengage Plum, Hairless Lady's-mantle, Hollyberry Cotoneaster, Japanese Quince, Japanese Rose, Jew's Mallow, Late Cotoneaster, Marsh Cinquefoil, Meadowsweet, Midland Hawthorn, Mountain Ash, Pale Lady's-mantle, Parsley Piert, Portuguese Laurel, Purple-flowered Raspberry, Raspberry, Rock Whitebeam, Salad Burnet, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Silverweed, Southern Downy Rose, Spring Cinquefoil, Sulphur Cinquefoil, Swedish Whitebeam, Tormentil, Wall Cotoneaster, Water Avens, Waterer's Cotoneaster, Wild Cherry, Wild Plum, Wild Strawberry, Willow-leaved Bridewort, Wood Avens

Type:

Deciduous shrub

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Maximum Size:

4 metres tall

Habitats:

Hedgerows, roadsides, scrub, woodland.

Flower:

Variable in colour, 5 petals

Variable in colour from dark pink to white, 5 notched petals and yellow stamens.

Fruit:

Egg-shaped, bright red fruit (rosehip), up to 3cm in diameter. Usually not hairy. Many-seeded.

Leaves:

A deciduous climbing shrub. Dark green leaves, sometimes downy beneath. Its pinnate leaves are alternate along the stems. The 5 to 7 leaflets have toothed margins.

Aroma:

Sweet-scented flowers.

Other Names:

Bird Briar, Briar, Briar-rose, Buckieberries, Can Whin, Canker, Canker Flower, Canker Rose, Cankerberry, Cat Rose, Choop Tree, Cock-bramble, Common Brier, Dike-rose, Dog Briar, Dog Brier, Eglantine, Hep Briar, Hep Rose, Hep Tree, Hip-rose, Pig-rose, Wild Rose.

Frequency (UK):

Common