dog-rose

Rosa canina

Member of dog-rose complex (subsection Caninae)
roses (genus Rosa)
rose tribe (tribe Roseae)
rose family (family Rosaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)

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CalPhotos
sepals

• shrub or thicket-forming, generally 80 cm – 4 m
• prickles ± few, 3–10 mm, thick-based and compressed, curved
• leaf axis glabrous or with hairs to 1 mm, glandless
• leaflets generally 5–7, (±) glabrous
• sepals ± glandless, with toothed lateral lobes
• rare
• Nisene Marks, Marin, and Mt. Tam.

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

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

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Chris’s observations: none

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

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora