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Rosa acicularis
Also called Bristly Rose, Wild Prickly Rose, Arctic Rose, Prickly Wild Rose
Prickly rose is a deciduous wild shrub of cold northern regions, growing 1 to 3 m tall, with pink flowers and red hips that persist through winter. Give it full sun to part shade and a cold, moist site.
Rosa acicularis is a flowering plant in the Rosaceae family. It is commonly known as the prickly wild rose, prickly rose, bristly rose, wild rose or Arctic rose. It is a species of wild rose with a Holarctic distribution in northern regions of Asia, Europe, and North America.
The hips, which stay on the plant through winter, are reported to be high in vitamins A and C. Native Americans made tea and salad from the leaves, and used the inner bark to smoke tobacco. Perfume has also been made from this plant. The Fraser River Stl'atl'mx use R. acicularis blooming as a temporal sign of the first sockeye run and second spring salmon run up the Fraser River, and Lil'wat/Stl'atl'mx use its blooming as a temporal sign to harvest basket materials like western redcedar, cherry bark, and basket grass.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rosa acicularis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
