Images
Click on image to view full size
Morphology
- Stem
- Climbing, sprawling, or trailing, much-branched, 3 to 19 feet long; prickles mostly broad-based and curved, slender and straight prickles few.
- Leaves
- Cauline, alternate, 3-foliolate or odd-pinnately compound; stipules .5 to .6 inch; petiole glabrous or pubescent to glandular-pubescent; leaflets 3 or 5, ovate to ovate-oblong, 1.4 to 3 inches long, .6 to 1.6 inch wide, base rounded, margins sharply toothed, tip acute or acuminate, lower surface pubescent to tomentose on veins, upper surface glabrous.
- Inflorescence
- On terminal stems and lateral branches, corymbs, 5-15-flowered.
- Flower
- Pedicels .6 to 1 inch, stipitate-glandular; flowers 1.6 to 2.4 inches wide; hypanthium ovoid, .16 to .25 inch, stipitate-glandular; sepals 5, ovate to lanceolate, .4 to .6 inch; petals 5, rose or pink, 1.2 to 1.4 inch long; stamens 50--200; styles connate into a column, protruding from orifice of hypanthium at flowering.
- Fruit
- Accessory, numerous achenes enclosed by enlarged, fleshy hypanthium (hip); hips red, globose, .26 to .43 by .25 to .35 inch, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular; sepals deciduous; achenes 17-22, yellowish, .14 to .2 inch.
Ecology
- Habitat
- Tallgrass prairies, oak-hickory and elm-ash-hackberry woodlands, roadsides, pastures, and flood plains.
- Distribution
- East 1/4 of Kansas and Riley County
Quick Facts
- Plant Type
- Wildflower
- Family
- Rosaceae - Rose Family
- Life Span
- Perennial
- Height
- Climbing, sprawling, or trailing
- Origin
- Native
- Last Updated
- 2014-01-18
Color Groups
Pink, Red & Orange Wildflowers
Flowering Period
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Blooms: May, June