I found what I think is a wild rose growing in the back area of my house. I cut back a lot of junk there and I don't think anyone has attended to it in years. The rose is thornless and I really want to know what it is. Can anone ID this plant??
The buds are pink and the flower is very small.
I am so curious. I can't believe I found what appears to be a wild rose in my own yard.
I was wondering the same thing and just assumed wild rose. We have them between our neighbor's yard and ours.....ton of them around here along the roadsides...smells wonderful!
I have TONS of those growing wild in my woods. But mine have small prickly thorns on them. So I guess not exactly the same but a close cousin.
I'm going to watch this thread in hopes of a ID.
I have lots of that around here.
Do your have thorns or are they thornless? It is the fact that they are thornless that is throwing me
No, mine have lots of thorns!
I think that is the invasive multiflora. This does not seem to be so I am going to enjoy it.
I have read that there can be a great degree of variance as to the amount of thorns these "invasive multifloras" can have ..... from a superabundance to virtually none. I think I read about this from someone who works on the over-growth around Arlington.
I am not sure there is a correlation between thorniness and invasiveness. Maybe your multiflora is in a space that does not allow it to spread easily?
I'll keep my eye out for a more authoritative reference other than "I think I read somewhere ..."
