PASTURE ROSE                                PINK

Rosa carolina                             June-Aug.

Rose Family

Flower:  2-3” wide

Plant:  1-3’ high

    A showy, slender-stemmed Rose, this plant has fragrant, solitary pink flowers with 5 petals which are broad at the tips and slightly indented.  The smooth leaves are divided into 3-7 oval, dull green, coarsely toothed leaflets.  At the base of each leaf stalk there are narrow stipules.  Straight, slender thorns, which grow only at the points where the leaves branch off from the stem, are an identifying feature.

 

    Pasture Rose is a very common low, branching wild Rose found in open woods and dry pastures.  It is the state flower of New York.

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