sweet-brier

Rosa rubiginosa

Member of sweet-brier complex (subsection Rubigineae)
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 – 3 m
prickles ± 5–15 mm, thick-based and compressed, curved
leaf axis ± hairy, hairs 0.2–1 mm, glandular
leaflets generally 5–7, ± hairy, glandular
sepals glandular, with toothed lateral lobes
La Honda Creek OSP

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: none

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

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora