Rosa mollisSm.

WFO wfo-0000995836 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 mollis, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. a Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-12 / obs. 135753544
Rosa mollis, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. b Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50736700
Rosa mollis, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. c Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135753594
Rosa mollis, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. d Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135753570
Rosa mollis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110905470
Rosa mollis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. f Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110905462
Rosa mollis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. g Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110905467
Rosa mollis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. h Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110905576

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Rosa mollis is native: Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Baltic States, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Føroyar, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine TranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBaltic StatesBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyIrelandItalyNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine Føroyar
Native distribution of Rosa mollis, 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
Baltic States BLT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
Føroyar FOR
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Transcaucasus TCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR

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 243 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 atona (Matsson) Matsson
  • Rosa cremsensis A.Kern. ex Déségl.
  • Rosa cujavica Sprib.
  • Rosa drimylodonta (Matsson) Lindstr.
  • Rosa dubitabilis Lindstr.
  • Rosa expallescens (Matsson) Matsson
  • Rosa farinosa Almq.
  • Rosa grossella (Matsson) Matsson
  • Rosa heckeliana var. montenegrina Heinr.Braun
  • Rosa huteri Heinr.Braun
  • Rosa kitaibelii Borbás
  • Rosa macrifolia (Matsson) Matsson
  • Rosa modicella (Matsson) Lindstr.
  • Rosa mollis f. achalina Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. acleistodonta Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. affusa Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. albidella Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. apertella Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. apicatifrons Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. areschougii Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. argutella Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. argutiformis Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. arrectellidens Matsson
  • Rosa mollis f. atona Matsson

and 219 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.