ROSES 



Ro'sa spp. 



B135 

 (2 leaves) 



FENDLERROSE 



Flowers pink or rose, usually clustered 



Petals 5, about K in. long, reverse-heart- 

 shaped; stamens numerous 



Leaves alternate, divided into leaflets, 

 stalked; bracts (stipules) grown to lower 

 part of leafstalk, flat, winged- 



Leaflets 5 or 7 (sometimes 9), elliptic, oval or 

 reverse-egg-shaped, glandular-saw-toothed (or 

 often doubly saw-toothed), green and smooth 

 above, paler and glandular beneath 



Fruit (hip) globe-shaped, about % in. in 

 diameter, smooth, crowned by 5 persistent, 

 long-taper-pointed outer flower-part lobes 

 (sepals) 



BALD-HIP ROSE (R, gymnocarpa) 



Sepals rather short, hairless on the back, 

 soon withering and falling 



Flowers pale pink to rose, usually solitary 



Leaflets 5 to 9 (sometimes 11), up to a 

 little more than 1 in. long, somewhat round 

 to elliptic, thin, hairless, shiny green above, 

 lighter beneath, with edges doubly saw-toothed ; 

 teeth gland-tipped 



Hip orange-red or red, ellipsoid to globe- 

 shaped, about % in. in diameter, not crowned 



Rosa gymnocarpa 



