Rosa L.
(roses and briars)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Rosa arvensis
Field Rose, Field-rose
(Click to open)
 		Species 10 images
Rosa canina
Dog-rose
(Click to open)
 		Species 1 subtaxa 64 images
Rosa canina agg.
dog rose
Flower bud (Click to open)
 		Species aggregate 6 images
Rosa ferruginea
Red-leaved Rose
(Click to open)
 		Species 7 images
Rosa micrantha
Small-flowered Sweet-briar
Flower (Click to open)
 		Species 10 images
Rosa mollis
Soft Downy-rose
(Click to open)
 		Species 73 images
Rosa rubiginosa
Sweet-briar
(Click to open) (Click to open)Leaf (Click to open)Flower (Click to open)
 		Species 27 images
Rosa rugosa
Japanese Rose
(Click to open)
 		Species 31 images 2 ident. refs
Rosa sherardii
Sherard’s Downy-rose
Stipule (Click to open)
 		Species 60 images
Rosa spinosissima
Burnet Rose
(Click to open) (Click to open) (Click to open) (Click to open) (Click to open)
 		Species 21 images
Rosa stylosa
Short-styled Field-rose
Flowers (Click to open)
 		Species 45 images
Rosa tomentosa
Harsh Downy-rose
(Click to open)
 		Species 20 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusRosa (roses and briars)
FamilyROSACEAE (roses and fruit trees)
OrderROSALES (roses, elms, nettles, hops, buckthorns and figs)
SubclassEU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Graham, G.G. & Primavesi, A.L. 1993 Roses of Great Britain and Ireland BSBI Handbooks, No 7, 208pp, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)

Rosa (roses and briars) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Rosa (roses and briars)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 326 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Rosa (roses and briars)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)