Rosa glauca
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Growing form
Deciduous, prickly shrub
Size
1–3 m high.
Stem
The branches are patent and slender. The plant does not produce root sprouts. Young shoot is blue-glaucous and it becomes brownish red when mature. The prickles are rather delicate and straight – slightly curved.
Leaf
The leaf arrangement is spiral. The leaves are stipulate, and the apex of the stipules is narrow. The lamina is imparipinnate with 5–9 leaflets. The leaflets are 2–4.5 cm long, elliptic – ovate, reddish blue-green and serrate.
Flower
The flowers are solitary or form an inflorescence of 2–5 flowers. The pedicel is glabrous or rarely covered with glandular hairs. The sepals are long, narrow, glabrous and entire or with linear, erect appendages at the base of the sepals. The appendages abscise when the hep is mature. The corolla is 3–4 cm wide, rose-red.
Fruit and seed
The heps are about 1.5 cm wide, nearly spherical, red and glabrous.
The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
- Total squares
- punalehtiruusu (Finnish)
- daggros (Swedish)
- TNV - alien, new, resident
- 3 - spreading in the wild; completely of cultivated origin
| Establishment | Established |
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Other invasive species ?
- 2019 NA – Not Applicable
- 2010 NA – Not Applicable
- Arto Kurtto
- Vascular plants