English: Woods' rose; Interior rose; Common wild rose; Mountain rose; Pear-hip rose; Prairie rose.
Use: hips for food, tea; hips for medicine.
BotanyShrub; perennial; bushy; up to 3 metres tall; forms large, dense thickets.
Stems: straight; red to grey-brown; studded with prickles.
Leaves: deciduous; with several widely spaced sharp-toothed leaflets; up to 5 cm long.
Inflorescence: cyme, few flowers.
Flowers: fragrant; 5 petals; any shade of pink; up to 2.5 cm log; bloom between May and July; many stamens and pistils.
Fruit: red rose hip; over 1 cm long; matures in August to September.