Garden Forwardshrub
Dog rose
Rosa canina
Growing guidance
Horticultural figures below are practitioner estimates for planning, pending expert review. The botanical record further down is sourced and verifiable.
Current-climate suitability
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Sun
Full sun
Soil moisture
free-draining, average, moisture-retentive
Heat tolerance
Up to about 38°C
Cold tolerance
Down to about -30°C
Waterlogging tolerance
3/5
Drought tolerance
4/5
Mature size
2–3 m tall, 2.5 m spread
Seasonal interest
Early summer flower, autumn hip · Pale pink
Maintenance
low
Wildlife supported
General wildlife value 5/5 (verified species relationships are shown only where structured data exists)
Known risks or warnings
Regarded as a weed in parts of Australia; vigorous and thorny.
Toxicity: none
Verified botanical record
- Accepted scientific name
- Rosa canina L.
- Family
- Rosaceae (Rosales)
- Rank and status
- species · accepted
- GBIF record
- Taxon 3002461
Recorded native range: Flanders, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Portugal Continental
Recorded as introduced in: Alabama, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Chile Central, Chile South, Colorado, Connecticut, Falkland Is., Idaho and 40 further regions
Ranges are exactly as recorded in the GBIF source checklists and may be incomplete for widely cultivated species.
Rosa canina, the dog rose, is a variable climbing, wild rose species native to Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia.
Description from Wikipedia — Rosa canina (CC BY-SA), shortened and unedited in substance.
Native status and geographic context
- United Kingdom: native
- United States: climate-suitable
- Australia: restricted
Native status is never inferred from climate similarity. Plants restricted or invasive in a jurisdiction are excluded from recommendations there.
Demonstration data. Climate, plant and retailer records shown here are realistic samples awaiting horticultural validation and live data connections.