Woods’ Rose – Native Plant of the Day 10/24/2023
Photo from 6/21/2011. Location: Hull’s Gulch National Recreation Trail, Ada County, ID.
More photos / info at the Rosa woodsii detail page.
Wood’s Rose, Mountain Rose – Rosa woodsii
Also NPOD 10/24/2011, 10/24/2012, 10/24/2013, 10/24/2014, 10/24/2015, 10/24/2016, 10/24/2017, 10/24/2018, 10/24/2019, 10/24/2020, 10/24/2021, 10/24/2022
Wife and I recently visited the Big Horns (August 2016). We collected seed from various wildflowers. I was interested in the rose as many plants were growing along Hwy 14 (east side near Dayton) in an open grassland environment and identified only by the hips. The rose was prostrate, not higher than a few inches with the hips touching the ground. Will the seeds from this plant produce a low-growing plant or will the genetics allow for this plant to form a tall bush?
That’s a great question, Jerry, and if I answered it would be pure speculation. I sure hope you come back here and report how it turns out.
I planted 3 Woods Roses, purchased from a native plants nursery, hoping to form a thicket for the quail. Three years later, the thicket is 8 feet tall and a large circumfrence. The quail hide in the thicket daily. I couldnt be more pleased! I live in Eastern Washington in a Steppe climate, very dry, very sandy soil, very hot in the summer with no rain. I rarely water the Woods Roses.
Excellent, and thank you!