Rosa arvensis

The plant is variously known as the field rose{{sfn|Beales|1988|page=208}} and white-flowered trailing rose.{{sfn|White|1912|page=299}}

The following synonyms were recognised in October 2018:{{cite web|title=Flora Europea|url=http://193.62.154.38/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Rosa&SPECIES_XREF=arvensis*&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK=|accessdate=4 October 2018}}

• Rosa pervirens (Rosa arvensis × sempervirens)
• Rosa polliniana (Rosa arvensis × gallica)
• Rosa repens

Rosa arvensis is closely related to Rosa sempervirens {{small|L.}} and Rosa phoenicia {{small|Boiss}}.{{sfn|MJW|1965|loc=T535}}

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The plant can grow to be between {{convert|3|and|3.7|m|ft}} tall. Its flowers are white, {{convert|4|to|5|cm|in}} across, and its fruits ('hips') are red. It blooms in the summer (July in England,{{sfn|Beales|1988|page=208}} May–June in Bulgaria).{{sfn|Dimitrov|1973|p=122}} Rosa arvensis is a vigorous, thorny, rambling shrub with long arching or scrambling purple stems and slightly fragrant, single creamy-white flowers produced in one flush in midsummer, followed by oval orange-red hips.{{Cite web |title=Rosa arvensis {{!}} field rose Roses/RHS Gardening |url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/55836/rosa-arvensis/details |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=www.rhs.org.uk |language=en-gb}}

Rosa arvensis was first identified in England and has been subsequently observed elsewhere in Europe.{{sfn|Harkness|1978|page=150}}{{sfn|Kollár|Balkovic|2006|page=61}} In England, it can be seen principally in hedges and thickets,{{sfn|White|1912|page=299}} while in Bulgaria, it also forms part of the understory of deciduous forests.{{sfn|Dimitrov|1973|p=122}}

It is found in most of the British Isles, France and Belgium, the Pyrenees (at altitudes up to 1000 m) and in more scattered localities elsewhere in Spain, in the west and south of Germany, the foothills of the Alps (up to 1330 m in the Central and Eastern Alps, up to 1400 m in the Maritime Alps), in Italy, Western Hungary, in the Little Carpathians of Slovakia, the Carpathians of Romania, most of the Balkan Peninsula (in Bulgaria up to 1000 m).{{harvnb|AFE|2004|p=41}}; {{harvnb|MJW|1965|loc=T535, K224}}; {{harvnb|Dimitrov|1973|p=122}} It has been reported in isolated occurrences in North-western Africa, southern Anatolia and the Levant, but it is likely these are instead instances of R. phoenicia. In Caucasia it is present only as a cultivated plant.{{sfn|AFE|2004|p=42}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book|first=Peter|last=Beales|title=Twentieth-century Roses: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia and Grower's Manual of Classic Roses from the Twentieth Century|place=New York|publisher=Harper & Row|year=1988|isbn=978-0-06016-052-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury0000beal}}
• {{cite book| last = Dimitrov| first = Stojan| chapter = Shipka – Rosa L.| title = Flora na Narodna Republika Bǎlgarija|volume = V| year = 1973| editor-last1 = Vǎlev| editor-first1 = Stoju| editor-last2 = Asenov| editor-first2 = Ivan| place = Sofia| publisher = Bulgarian Academy of Sciences| language = Bulgarian}}
• {{cite book|first=Jack Leigh|last=Harkness|title=Roses|place=London|publisher=J.M. Dent|year=1978|isbn=978-0-46004-328-1}}
• {{cite book|first=William|last=Hudson|title=Flora anglica; exhibens plantas per regnum angliae sponte crescentes, distributas secundum systema sexuale: cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, solo locorum, tempore florendi, ofììcinalibus pharmacopoeorum|url=https://archive.org/details/gulielmihudsonir00huds|place=London|publisher=J. Nourse|year=1762}}
• {{cite journal|first1=Jozef|last1=Kollár|first2=Juraj|last2=Balkovic|title= Charakteristika lokality s vyskytom Rosa arvensis v Malych Karpatoch|journal=Bulletin Slovenskej Botanickej Spoločnosti|volume=28|year=2006|language=Slovak|pages=61–65}}
• {{cite book| last1 = Kurtto| first1 = Arto| last2 = Lampinen| first2 = Raino| last3 = Junikka| first3 = Leo| date = 2004| title = Atlas florae Europaeae, distribution of vascular plants in Europe. 13: Rosaceae (Spiraea to Fragaria, excl. Rubus)| publisher = Committee for mapping the flora of Europe and Societas Biologica Fennica| location = Helsinki| isbn = 978-951-9108-14-8|pages = 41–42|ref = {{harvid|AFE|2004}}}}
• {{cite book| last1 = Meusel| first1 = Hermann| last2 = Jäger| first2 = E.| last3 = Weinert| first3 = E.| date = 1965| title = Vergleichende Chorologie der zentraleuropäischen Flora| volume = [Band I]| publisher = Fischer| location = Jena| at = |ref={{harvid|MJW|1965}}}}
• {{cite book|first=James Walter|last=White|title=The Flora of Bristol: Being an Account of All the Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Their Allies that Have at Any Time Been Found in the District of Bristol Coal-fields|place=Bristol|publisher=John White & Sons|year=1912}}

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Category:Flora of Europe

Category:Garden plants of Europe

Category:Roses

Category:Plants described in 1762

Category:Taxa named by William Hudson (botanist)