Description
A deciduous rose with large fragrant, rose to light pink flowers, followed by globose or ellipsoid bright red (occasional other shades) hips with persistent sepals. It has dense prickles on both old and new growth but sometimes flowering branches can be without.
Rosa acicularis is a species with circumboreal distribution. It has been shown that populations of North America are hexaploids and also differ morphological from all the others, hence subsp. sayi.
Like other NA Rosa species, the prickly wild rose was employed for various medicinal/ethnobotanical purposes by Indigenous People.
Germination: scarification prior to sowing will improve the germination; sow in late fall/winter (cold/moist stratification).
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