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Rosa webbiana

Rosa webbiana
Photo: Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 3.0

Rosa webbiana is a wild shrub rose from the mountains of Central Asia and the Himalaya, growing in scrub and on dry slopes. It is hardy and tolerant of cold and drought, so it does best in full sun with well-drained soil.

Family
Rosaceae (Rose family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then give occasional deep watering in dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained, moderately fertile soil; tolerates poor, stony ground.
Temperature
Hardy to around -25 °C; tolerates hot summers when mulched.
How easy
Easy
Safety
Not known to be toxic
Native range
Afghanistan to W. China and Nepal
Climate
temperate

About

Rosa webbiana, occasionally called Webb's rose, wild rose, or thorny rose, is a widely distributed species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is native to Central Asia, Tibet and Xinjiang in China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the western Himalayas, and Nepal. It grows in scrub, grassy places, valleys, and slopes. A diploid, its chromosome count is 2n = 2x = 14.

Other Rosa plants

Prickly rose · White rose of York · Prairie rose · Field-rose · Banksian Rose · Smooth rose · Macartney rose · California wildrose · Dog rose · Carolina rose · Chinese rose · Amur rose

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rosa webbiana 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.

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