Rosa rugosaThunb.

rugosa rose

WFO wfo-0001017421 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Rosa rugosa, photographed by Allison Gong
fig. a Allison Gong, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205911654
Rosa rugosa, photographed by Donald Davesne
fig. b Donald Davesne, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204226661
Rosa rugosa, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. c Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203954448
Rosa rugosa, photographed by KAR
fig. d KAR, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204184686
Rosa rugosa, photographed by Cilla Moerman
fig. e Cilla Moerman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205845130
Rosa rugosa, photographed by Nico
fig. f Nico, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204170519
Rosa rugosa, photographed by Wouter Van Landuyt
fig. g Wouter Van Landuyt, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202914247

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Flowering n = 5,086 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 5,086 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 47 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 andreae Lange
  • Rosa calocarpa (André) E.Willm.
  • Rosa camschatica Lindl.
  • Rosa cinnamomea Ledeb.
  • Rosa coruscans K.F.Waitz ex Link
  • Rosa fastuosa K.Koch
  • Rosa ferox Sol.
  • Rosa ferox Lawrance
  • Rosa kamtchatica Vent.
  • Rosa kamtchatica var. ferox (Lawrance) Ser.
  • Rosa kamtchatica var. ferox Van Geel
  • Rosa kamtchatica var. nitens Lindl.
  • Rosa kamtschatica Vent.
  • Rosa maikwai H.Hara
  • Rosa pubescens Baker
  • Rosa regeliana Linden & André
  • Rosa rugosa f. alba (T.S.Ware) Rehder
  • Rosa rugosa f. albaplena (Rehder) Rehder
  • Rosa rugosa f. alboplena (Rehder) Rehder
  • Rosa rugosa f. amurensis Debeaux
  • Rosa rugosa f. plena (Regel) Bijh.
  • Rosa rugosa f. rosea (Rehder) Rehder
  • Rosa rugosa f. rubroplena (Rehder) Rehder
  • Rosa rugosa subsp. coruscans (K.F.Waitz ex Link) Juel, R.E.Fr. & Örtendahl

and 23 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.

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