Rosa arvensisHuds.

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WFO wfo-0001012155 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rosa arvensis, photographed by Tobias Schönberg
fig. a Tobias Schönberg, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205436624
Rosa arvensis, photographed by Tobias Schönberg
fig. b Tobias Schönberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205436586
Rosa arvensis, photographed by Tobias Schönberg
fig. c Tobias Schönberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202260912
Rosa arvensis, photographed by Tobias Schönberg
fig. d Tobias Schönberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202260869
Rosa arvensis, photographed by Thierry Helminger
fig. e Thierry Helminger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145095669
Rosa arvensis, photographed by Stephen James McWilliam
fig. f Stephen James McWilliam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 142850983
Rosa arvensis, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. g Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126661283
Rosa arvensis, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. h Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19039854

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Rosa arvensis is native: Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Spain, Switzerland TürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.SpainSwitzerland
Native distribution of Rosa arvensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 158 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ripartia arvensis (Huds.) Gand.
  • Ripartia baldensis (A.Kern. ex Déségl.) Gand.
  • Ripartia repens (Chevall.) Gand.
  • Rosa arvensis f. aberrans R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. adenocarpa Dingler
  • Rosa arvensis f. appendiculata R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. atrata Christ
  • Rosa arvensis f. baldaccii R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. baldensis (A.Kern. ex Déségl.) Posp.
  • Rosa arvensis f. bosniaca R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. conica R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. erronea (Ripart ex Crép.) R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. genuina Posp.
  • Rosa arvensis f. laevipes (Gremli) Fiori
  • Rosa arvensis f. nuda R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. ovata (Desv.) Malinv.
  • Rosa arvensis f. ovatocordata (Gand.) R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. paradoxa (Burnat & Gremli) R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. pilifolia Borbás
  • Rosa arvensis f. pseudobibracteata (Rouy) R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. pseudostylosa (Rouy) R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. pyriformis R.Keller
  • Rosa arvensis f. repens (Chevall.) Christ
  • Rosa arvensis f. rhomboideocuneata R.Keller

and 134 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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