Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
Rosaceae | Rosa ×alba | | | | |
Rosaceae | Rosa ×borboniana | | | | |
Rosaceae | Rosa ×damascena | Damask Rose | Disturbed areas, persistent after cultivation. | Native of Europe. | |
Rosaceae | Rosa ×dumetorum | | | Introduced in KY. | |
Rosaceae | Rosa ×odorata | | | | |
Rosaceae | Rosa acicularis ssp. sayi | Prickly Rose | Rocky forests. | NS west to AK, south to MA, NY, MI, nw. IL, IA, SD, NM, AZ, and BC; disjunct in WV (Cronquist 1991; Harmon, Ford-Werntz, & Grafton 2006). | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa arkansana | Prairie Rose | Rocky slopes and dry woodlands. | ON to BC, south to OH, IN, IL, MO, TX, and NM. Reported from the North Carolina portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, perhaps a result of former horticultural use and not seen recently (K. Langdon, pers. comm., 2016). | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa blanda var. blanda | Smooth Rose, Meadow Rose | Rocky forests. | QC west to MB, south to s. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007), MD, VA, WV (Harmon, Ford-Werntz, & Grafton 2006), OH, IN, IL, MO, KS, and MT. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa bracteata | McCartney Rose, Chickasaw Rose | Disturbed areas, suburban borders, persistent after cultivation. | Native of China. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa canina | Dog Rose | Pastures, old fields, fencerows, roadsides. | Native of Europe. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa carolina ssp. carolina | Carolina Rose | Upland forests, woodlands, pastures, roadsides. | NB and ON south to FL and TX. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa carolina ssp. subserrulata | Carolina Rose | Glades and barrens. | VT, ON, MI, and MO, south to SC, AL, and TX. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa centifolia | Cabbage Rose | | Native of the Caucasus. | |
Rosaceae | Rosa chinensis | Chinese Rose | Suburban woodlands. | Native of China. Reported for AL, MS, and VA (Kartesz 2010). | |
Rosaceae | Rosa cinnamomea | Cinnamon Rose | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. | |
Rosaceae | Rosa foliolosa | White Prairie Rose | Prairies, sandy oak woodlands, roadsides. | Sw. MO, se. KS, and w. OK south to w. AR, and e. and c. TX. Report from MS is a misidentification (J. Kees, pers.comm. 2021). | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa gallica | French Rose | Disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa glauca | Red-leaf Rose | Disturbed areas. | Native of c. and s. Europe. Reported for SC (Kartesz 1999). | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa laevigata | Cherokee Rose | Roadsides, moist forests. | Native of China. Apparently introduced into the se. United States very early, where encountered by André Michaux in the 1790s and named by him as an apparent native species. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa lucidissima | Sichuan Rose | | Native of e. Asia. | |
Rosaceae | Rosa lucieae | Memorial Rose, Dorothy Perkins Rose, Lucie Rose | Roadbanks, railroad embankments, disturbed areas. | Native of e. Asia. See Duncan (1985) for documentation for GA. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa memoryae | Memory's Rose | Prairies. | Endemic to the "Johnson Grasslands" of nc. TX (Wise County). | |
Rosaceae | Rosa moschata | Musk Rose | | | |
Rosaceae | Rosa multiflora | Multiflora Rose | Pastures, thickets, bottomlands, upland forests, bogs. | Native of Asia, aggressively invasive. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa nitida | Shining Rose | Thickets, forests, shores. | NL west to ON, south to NY. | |
Rosaceae | Rosa palustris | Swamp Rose | Swamp forests, bogs, fens, seeps, streamsides, tidal swamps, beaver ponds. | NB and ON south to c. peninsular FL, MS, and ne. AR. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa rubiginosa var. nemoralis | Eglantine Rose, Sweetbriar Rose | Pastures, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa rubiginosa var. rubiginosa | Eglantine Rose, Sweetbriar Rose | Pastures, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. | |
Rosaceae | Rosa rugosa | Japanese Rose, Rugosa Rose | Coastal dunes, disturbed areas, cultivated and sometimes escaped. | Native of Asia. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa setigera | Ozark Rose, Climbing Prairie Rose | Dry-mesic to mesic upland forests and woodlands, prairies, bluffs, bottomland and riparian forests, stream banks, pastures, old fields, roadsides; nativity uncertain in portions of our area. | ME west to WI and NE, south to FL and TX. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa spinosissima | Scotch Rose | Cultivated and rarely escaped. | Native of Eurasia. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa virginiana ssp. minidentata | | Dunes and sandplains. | NL (Newfoundland), NS, NH, VT, and MA south to Long Island (NY). | |
Rosaceae | Rosa virginiana ssp. virginiana | Virginia Rose | Moist to dry forests and woodlands. | NL (Newfoundland) and ON south to GA, AL, and MO. Allegedly also in c. TN (Chester, Wofford, & Kral 1997), e. and c. KY (Clark et al. 2005), these records disputed. | 
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Rosaceae | Rosa woodsii var. woodsii | Western Rose | Rocky prairie ravines, woodlands. | ON and AK, south to n. IL, IA, OK, w. TX, NM, AZ, CA, and Mexico (CHH, COA, SON). | |
Rosaceae | Rosa xanthina | Yellow Rose, Manchu Rose | Disturbed areas. | Native of China. Reported for SC (Kartesz 1999, 2010, 2020). | |