Rosa carolina Linnaeus (Q4081)

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Rosa carolina is a taxon with the rank species within the section Rosa sect. Rosa
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Rosa carolina Linnaeus
Rosa carolina is a taxon with the rank species within the section Rosa sect. Rosa

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    taxon/id/Rosa carolina Linnaeus
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    Rosa carolina Linnaeus
    Rosa carolina
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Carolina rose (English)
    pasture rose (English)
    rosier de Caroline (French)
    Carolina or pasture rose (English)
    rosier de Caroline (English)
    ne Mexico
    Shrubs or subshrubs, forming scattered populations.
    Stems spreading and weak, sometimes erect, slender, 3–10 (–13) dm, openly branched;
    infrastipular prickles usually paired, erect, sometimes declined, rarely curved, flat, subulate, (2–) 3–9 × 1.5–3 mm, base glabrous, internodal prickles sparsely or densely mixed with aciculi, stipitate-glands and smaller internodal prickles.
    Leaves 5–10 (–16) cm;
    stipules 10–18 (–23) × 2–3 mm, auricles flared, 2–4 mm, margins entire or subserrate, eglandular or finely stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, rarely puberulent, eglandular;
    petiole and rachis sometimes with pricklets 3 mm, aciculi few, glabrous, rarely pubescent, rarely stipitate-glandular;
    leaflets (3–) 5–7 (–9), terminal: petiolule 4–11 mm, blade ovate, elliptic, or lanceolate, 18–50 × 9–28 mm, membranous, base cuneate, margins 1–2+-serrate, teeth 8–14 (–18) per side, eglandular or gland-tipped, apex acute to acuminate, rarely obtuse, abaxial surfaces pale green, glabrous, rarely pubescent, eglandular or glandular, adaxial usually green, dull, rarely slightly lustrous, glabrous.
    Inflorescences corymbs, 1–3 (–6) -flowered.
    Pedicels erect, slender, 5–19 mm, glabrous, sparsely to ± densely stipitate-glandular, sometimes eglandular;
    bracts 2, lanceolate, 10–17 × 2–4 mm, margins entire, usually eglandular, surfaces with sparse hairs, stipitate-glandular.
    Flowers 3–5.5 cm diam.;
    hypanthium globose or ovoid, 4–6 (–8) × 3.5–5 (–8) mm, glabrous, ± densely to sparsely stipitate-glandular, sometimes eglandular, neck (0–) 0.5–1 × 2 mm;
    sepals reflexed, sometimes spreading, lanceolate, 10–22 × 2–3 mm, tip 2–10 × 0.5–1 mm, margins pinnatifid or entire, abaxial surfaces rarely puberulent, stipitate-glandular, rarely eglandular;
    petals single, pink, 15–24 × 13–19 mm;
    carpels 32–46, styles exsert 1 mm beyond stylar orifice (1.5–2 mm diam.) of hypanthial disc (4–5 mm diam.).
    Hips red or orange-red, globose or depressed-globose, rarely ellipsoid, 7–14 × 6–15 mm, fleshy, glabrous, densely to sparsely stipitate-glandular, sometimes eglandular, neck 0–0.5 × 5–6 mm;
    sepals early deciduous, spreading to reflexed.
    Achenes basal, 2–6 (–10), tan, 4–5 × 2.5–3 mm.