Rosa nitidaWilld.

shining rose

WFO wfo-0001014414 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 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 nitida, photographed by Renee MacQuarrie
fig. a Renee MacQuarrie, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-16 / obs. 143967369
Rosa nitida, photographed by Laura J. Costello
fig. b Laura J. Costello, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46013699
Rosa nitida, photographed by Melissa McMasters
fig. c Melissa McMasters, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20107581
Rosa nitida, photographed by Renee MacQuarrie
fig. d Renee MacQuarrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143967400
Rosa nitida, photographed by Laura J. Costello
fig. e Laura J. Costello, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46013701
Rosa nitida, photographed by Renee MacQuarrie
fig. f Renee MacQuarrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143967433
Rosa nitida, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. g Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22528614
Rosa nitida, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. h Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11348443

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Rosa nitida is native: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Vermont ConnecticutMaineMassachusettsNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew YorkNewfoundlandNova ScotiaOntarioPrince Edward I.QuébecVermont Rhode I.
Native distribution of Rosa nitida, 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
Connecticut CNT NORTHERN AMERICA
Maine MAI
Massachusetts MAS
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New York NWY
Newfoundland NFL
Nova Scotia NSC
Ontario ONT
Prince Edward I. PEI
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
Vermont VER

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 10 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 nitida f. spinosa W.H.Lewis
  • Rosa redutea Thory
  • Rosa redutea unranked glauca (Thory) Thory
  • Rosa redutea unranked rubescens (Thory) Thory
  • Rosa redutea unranked rufescens Thory
  • Rosa redutea var. glauca Thory
  • Rosa redutea var. parvifolia Thory
  • Rosa redutea var. rubescens Thory
  • Rosa reduteana Thory
  • Rosa rubrispina Bosc ex Poir.

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.

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.