Rosa inodoraFr.

WFO wfo-0000987930 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rosa inodora, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. a Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-23 / obs. 170070615
Rosa inodora, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. b Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204243862
Rosa inodora, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. c Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170070628
Rosa inodora, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. d Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170070640
Rosa inodora, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. e Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204243764
Rosa inodora, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. f Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204243925
Rosa inodora, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. g Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204242822
Rosa inodora, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. h Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204243968

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Rosa inodora is native: Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sardegna, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelgiumBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine Sardegna
Native distribution of Rosa inodora, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR

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 170 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.

  • Rosa aeduensis Déségl. & Gillot
  • Rosa agrestis f. inodora (Fr.) Borbás
  • Rosa agrestis subsp. abscondita (Christ) Arcang.
  • Rosa agrestis subsp. graveolens (Gren.) Malinv.
  • Rosa agrestis subvar. briacensis (Heinr.Braun) R.Keller
  • Rosa agrestis var. elliptica (Tausch) L.A.W.Hasse
  • Rosa agrestis var. inodora (Fr.) R.Keller
  • Rosa argus Gand.
  • Rosa berdaui Piotr.
  • Rosa bernardii Moutin
  • Rosa billetii Puget ex Crép.
  • Rosa billietii Puget
  • Rosa boullui Gand.
  • Rosa bouvieri Crép.
  • Rosa briacensis Heinr.Braun
  • Rosa canina f. bernensis R.Keller
  • Rosa cheriensis Déségl.
  • Rosa cornazi Gremli
  • Rosa eglanteria var. bernardii (Moutin) C.Vicioso
  • Rosa eglanteria var. billetii (Puget ex Crép.) P.V.Heath
  • Rosa elliptica Tausch
  • Rosa elliptica f. argus (Gand.) R.Keller
  • Rosa elliptica f. briacensis (Heinr.Braun) Schwertschl.
  • Rosa elliptica f. confusa E.Schenk

and 146 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. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.