Rosa montanaChaix

WFO wfo-0001007706 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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 montana, photographed by Julien Tchilinguirian
fig. a Julien Tchilinguirian, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-06 / obs. 89322778
Rosa montana, photographed by Francesco Cecere
fig. b Francesco Cecere, CC0 1.0 / obs. 52021340
Rosa montana, photographed by Francesco Cecere
fig. c Francesco Cecere, CC0 1.0 / obs. 52021429
Rosa montana, photographed by Julien Tchilinguirian
fig. d Julien Tchilinguirian, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89322782

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Rosa montana is native: Türkiye, France, Greece, Italy, Sicilia, Switzerland TürkiyeFranceGreeceItalySiciliaSwitzerland
Native distribution of Rosa montana, 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
France FRA EUROPE
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Sicilia SIC
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 60 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.

  • Ozanonia montana (Chaix) Gand.
  • Rosa arvensis var. montana (Chaix) Lindl.
  • Rosa burmiensis Cornaz
  • Rosa burmiensis Cornaz ex Crép.
  • Rosa canina var. montana (Chaix) P.V.Heath
  • Rosa communis prol. ravaudii (Boullu ex Déségl.) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Rosa communis subsp. montana (Chaix) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Rosa communis var. alpestriformis Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Rosa communis var. portentosa Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Rosa communis var. tardata (Gren.) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Rosa communis var. typica (Christ) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Rosa glauca subsp. marsica (Godet) Arcang.
  • Rosa glauca subsp. montana (Chaix) E.P.Perrier
  • Rosa marsica Godet
  • Rosa montana f. abadii P.Rossi & R.Keller
  • Rosa montana f. aciculifera R.Keller
  • Rosa montana f. anacantha R.Keller
  • Rosa montana f. demarchii P.Rossi & R.Keller
  • Rosa montana f. depauperata Christ
  • Rosa montana f. favratii R.Keller
  • Rosa montana f. grajica R.Keller
  • Rosa montana f. grandifrons Christ
  • Rosa montana f. leiostyla R.Keller
  • Rosa montana f. nitens R.Keller

and 36 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.