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Plant - winter Thumb Butte Area - Trail 33
Doug McMillan | Leaves Ponderosa Park Area
Sue Smith | Leaves, top and bottom Granite Mtn - Tr 40
Sue Smith | Flower Lynx Lake
Sue Smith | Fruit Ponderosa Park Area
Sue Smith | Thorns Granite Mtn - Tr 345
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Origin: Native Similar Species: Rosa fendleri
General Description: Deciduous. This is the most abundant rose in Arizona. Grows relatively low to the ground and is multi-branched. Grows smaller than the Rosa fendleri.
Identification notes: Shrubs, grow singly or in clumps; reddish bark branches covered by prickles which may be straight, curved or hooked; leaves are compound and hairless; flowers solitary or 2 to several, arranged in clusters at the ends of lateral branches
Height: 3 feet Width: 3 feet
Habitat Description: Along streams and in pine forests.
Plant Communities: Montane Conifer Forest, Riparian
Elevation: 4000 - 9000 feet
Color: Pink Shape: Regular, not in clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: May - Jul
Description: Pink with 5 wavy petals, uneven in size, yellow stamens, frangrant, to 1-3/4 inches wide. Flowers are smaller than on the Rosa
fendleri.
Leaf Color: Dark Green Type: Compound Shape: Round or oval Margin: Toothed Attachment: Alternate Hairs: N
Description: Dark green above, lighter beneath, pinnate, 3 to 9 toothed, to 2-1/2 inches long, oval to elliptical leaflets, toothed margins, each to
3/4 inch long.
Color: Red Type: Berry-like Description: Berrylike fruit (hip), turns red when mature.
Bark Color: Gray to Brown Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Thorns to 1/4 inch long and larger than the thorns on the Rosa fendleri. Stems grayish to brownish on twigs.
Spines, thorns or prickles: Y |
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