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§1 Plant

Rosa acicularis Lindl. ssp. sayi (Schwein.) W.H. Lewis

vernacular prickly rose — subspecies · Rosaceae

USDA
ROACS
GBIF
6369405
Rank
subspecies
prickly rose (Rosa acicularis ssp. sayi)
Platephotograph · keairareischauerCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Rosaceae Juss.
Genus
Rosa
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 17 counties across 1 state
Legend Native · 17 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 17 counties across 1 state.

Montana view state ↗ 17 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ROACS ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/6369405 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25

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