california wild rose

Rosa californica

Member of roses (genus Rosa)
rose tribe (tribe Roseae)
rose family (family Rosaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
pale purple, pink in flowering plants

shrub or thicket-forming, 80 cm – 2.5 m
prickles 3–15 mm, thick-based and compressed, generally curved
leaf axis ± shaggy-hairy (± glabrous), hairs to 1 mm, glandless or glandular
leaflets 5–7(9), ± hairy, sometimes glandular
sepals entire, glandular or not
petals generally 15–25 mm, pink
very common in the bay area
hosts rose galls

Edibility: Early Californians would occasionally eat the rose hips raw, but only after a frost had sweetened them. [source]

Toxicity:
except for thorns of rose (Rosa spp.):

0 – Non-toxic.

rose hips of rosehips, hip berries (Rosa spp.):

0 – Non-toxic.

Chris’s observations: 36 (14 are research grade)

Locations:

Pinnacles NP: 5
Skyline Ridge OSP: 5
Russian Ridge OSP: 3
Bear Creek Redwoods OSP: 2
Butano SP: 2
Henry Coe SP: 2
Santa Teresa CP: 2
Ulistac Natural Area, Santa Clara: 2
Wilder Ranch SP: 2
Almaden Quicksilver CP
Coal Creek OSP
Coyote Lake / Harvey Bear Ranch CP
El Sereno OSP
Murray Ranch SP
Pearson-Arastradero Preserve, Palo Alto
Rancho Cañada del Oro OSP
Sibley Volcanic RP
Stevens Creek CP
Waterdog Lake & Open Space
Windy Hill OSP

Months:

Mar.: 3
Apr.: 2
May: 4
Jun.: 8
Jul.: 3
Aug.: 3
Sep.: 3
Oct.: 5
Nov.: 1
Dec.: 2
Jan.: 2

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Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora