Rosa virginianaMill.

Glossy RoseSpecies RoseVirginia RoseVirginia rose

WFO wfo-0000991253 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rosa virginiana, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. a Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205222679
Rosa virginiana, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. b Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156327040
Rosa virginiana, photographed by Renee MacQuarrie
fig. c Renee MacQuarrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149916693
Rosa virginiana, photographed by Howard Williams
fig. d Howard Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 137610892
Rosa virginiana, photographed by Michael
fig. e Michael, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135245761
Rosa virginiana, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. f Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 95777920
Rosa virginiana, photographed by Henrique Pacheco
fig. g Henrique Pacheco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60970754
Rosa virginiana, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. h Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179876276

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Rosa virginiana is native: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia ConnecticutKentuckyMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMissouriNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNewfoundlandNova ScotiaOntarioPennsylvaniaPrince Edward I.QuébecTennesseeVermontVirginia DelawareDistrict of ColumbiaRhode I.
Native distribution of Rosa virginiana, 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
Delaware DEL
District of Columbia WDC
Kentucky KTY
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Michigan MIC
Missouri MSO
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
Newfoundland NFL
Nova Scotia NSC
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
Prince Edward I. PEI
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
Tennessee TEN
Vermont VER
Virginia VRG

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 67 in flower of 158 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Rosa virginiana 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. 67 of 158 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 21 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 lucida unranked florepleno Savi
  • Rosa lucida var. alba Anon.
  • Rosa lucida var. glauca Raf.
  • Rosa lucida var. lamprophylla (Rehder) P.V.Heath
  • Rosa lucida var. plena Rehder
  • Rosa lucida var. uniflora Raf.
  • Rosa rapa Bosc
  • Rosa rapa unranked floresemipleno Thory
  • Rosa virginiana Herrm.
  • Rosa virginiana f. innoxia F.Seym.
  • Rosa virginiana f. nanella (Rydb.) Fernald
  • Rosa virginiana f. plena (Rehder) Rehder
  • Rosa virginiana subsp. lucida Best ex C.K.Schneid.
  • Rosa virginiana unranked alba E.Willm.
  • Rosa virginiana unranked florepleno Bean
  • Rosa virginiana var. grandiflora Bean
  • Rosa virginiana var. lamprophylla Rehder
  • Rosa virginiana var. plena Rehder
  • Rosa virginiana var. vulgaris Farw.
  • Rosa virginica Rössig ex Ser.
  • Rosa virginica Curtis ex Spreng.

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.