Wild White Rose
by Jordan Blackstone
Title
Wild White Rose
Artist
Jordan Blackstone
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Being an Alberta bred praire girl, was so happy to see a wild rose today ~ the provincial flower for Alberta is the Wild Rose =)
Rosa acicularis is a deciduous shrub growing 1-3 m tall. The leaves are pinnate, 7-14 cm long, with three to seven leaflets. The leaflets are ovate, with serrate (toothed) margins. The flowers are pink and white, 3.5-5 cm diameter; the hips are red, pear-shaped to ovoid, 10-15 mm diameter.
The ploidy of this rose species is variable. Botanical authorities have listed it as tetraploid and hexaploid in North America (subsp. sayi) and octoploid in Eurasia (subsp. acicularis). On the northern Great Plains and in northwest Canada, extending to Whitehorse, Yukon its populations are generally tetraploid.
This native rose species of the U.S. and Canadian northern Great Plains is the provincial flower of Alberta. It is not as common in the Parkland region of the Canadian Prairie provinces as Rosa woodsii (Woods' rose), but is the most abundant rose species growing in the boreal forests of northern Canada and Alaska.
Featured in the following groups:
~ Beautiful Roses
~ Greeting Cards For All Occasions
~ All The Roses
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June 13th, 2013
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Comments (8)
Tessa Fairey
Beautiful capture Jordan! Love the water droplet! v/f
Jordan Blackstone replied:
Thank you, Tessa!! It was raining off and on all day so the water droplets were expected ;)