Description
Rosa acicularis, known as the prickly wild rose, bristly rose, wild rose, or Arctic rose, is the provincial flower of Alberta and commonly found throughout that province and in BC (mostly east of the Coast-Cascade Mountains) east to Quebec and around much of the Northern Hemisphere. It grows as an upright, arching shrub with lovely, single, fragrant, pink flowers followed by attractive, elongated red rose hips all on stems with copious thorns of various sizes. The rose hips can be used to make jelly and tea and the flowers are edible. Popular with native bees and butterflies. It is a larval host for butterflies including the northern pearly eye. Tolerant of sun to shade. Hardy to zone 1! Photo: Wikipedia.
