Rosa laevigata

Cherokee Rose (Rosa laevigata )

The Cherokee Rose (Rosa laevigata ) is a type of rose that is expected to wild roses. Their natural habitat is central China. It arrived in the 17th century to North America and has spread there as a neophyte. 1803 described by French botanist Michaux in his Flora Boreali Americana and considered it a native plant. This has contributed to their trivial names Cherokee Rose.

Features

Rosa laevigata is a white-flowered climbing rose that relies on hot summer. In North America it flourishes especially south of Georgia well. Your favorite sites are rocky areas. Plants produce up to 10 meters from long shoots, which are covered with curved spines. The leaves consist of three leaflets evergreen. The white flowers have a diameter up to 10 inches and smell pleasant. The orange-red rose hips are occupied with long and bristles.

System

The Cherokee Rose is the only species of the section Laevigatae Thory the subgenus Rosa. Morphologically, it is close to the sections Banksianae and Bracteatae, molecular genetic studies, however, they see within the clade of section Pimpinellifoliae.