Rosa sempervirensL.

evergreen rose

WFO wfo-0000992954 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rosa sempervirens, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. a Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197564186
Rosa sempervirens, photographed by etrusko25
fig. b etrusko25, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169565463
Rosa sempervirens, photographed by Dyhia YOUSFI
fig. c Dyhia YOUSFI, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167483277
Rosa sempervirens, photographed by pavlaki1968
fig. d pavlaki1968, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137197331
Rosa sempervirens, photographed by Andrea Meucci
fig. e Andrea Meucci, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 136699479
Rosa sempervirens, photographed by David Delon
fig. f David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136567716
Rosa sempervirens, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131777706
Rosa sempervirens, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. h Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131829451

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Rosa sempervirens is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.TürkiyeAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Rosa sempervirens, 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
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR

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.

Flowering 109 in flower of 199 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Rosa sempervirens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 109 of 199 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 94 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.

  • Ripartia balearica (Dum.Cours.) Gand.
  • Ripartia sempervirens (L.) Gand.
  • Rosa alba All.
  • Rosa amansii Gand.
  • Rosa amicii Gand.
  • Rosa arvensis var. candolleana Tratt.
  • Rosa arvensis var. prostrata (DC.) Thory
  • Rosa atrovirens Viv.
  • Rosa aunisiensis (Fouilloy) Fouilloy
  • Rosa balearica Dum.Cours.
  • Rosa balearica Desf.
  • Rosa chaubardiana Gand.
  • Rosa choristylis Borbás
  • Rosa engolismensis Déségl. & Guillon
  • Rosa fusca Moench
  • Rosa gandogeriana Debeaux
  • Rosa lucida Cav.
  • Rosa melvinii Towndrow
  • Rosa moschata Lapeyr.
  • Rosa prostrata DC.
  • Rosa prostrata f. leiostyla (W.D.J.Koch) Borbás
  • Rosa prostrata var. microtricha Borbás
  • Rosa prostrata var. obtusiuscula Martrin-Donos
  • Rosa scandens Mill.

and 70 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. 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.