Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Dog-rose x Harsh Downy-rose, Rosa x scabriuscula
Photographs: Co. Waterford

Dog-rose x Harsh Downy-rose
Rosa x scabriuscula (R. canina x tomentosa)
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering June - July. Deciduous shrub. Native.

A usually fertile hybrid with small hips on long stalks with some glandular hairs. The dark green leaflets are downy underneath with glands at leaf edges. Robust climbing or flexuous stems. Identified by Paul Green

Grows in mildly acidic to calcareous soils on woodland edges, roadsides and in hedges. Infrequently recorded, mainly eastern half of Ireland

Very similar to Rosa canina x sherardii (Rosa x rothschildii)

Dog-rose x Harsh Downy-rose, Rosa x scabriuscula

Dog-rose x Harsh Downy-rose, Rosa x scabriuscula
Dog-rose x Harsh Downy-rose, Rosa canina x tomentosa, Rosa x scabriuscula

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