Scientific name: Rosa arvensis Huds.
Common name: Field Rose
Description
Habit: A deciduous, spiny shrub.
Stems: Trailing or scrambling, to 1-2 m long; spines sparse, slender and hooked.
Leaves: Alternate, stalked, with leafy stipules fused with the leaf stalk, pinnate with 5-7 leaflets; leaflets 1.8 x 1.2 cm, usually hairless, toothed.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 3-5 cm across, in terminal groups of 2-5; sepals 5, entire, with a deep tube constricted at the mouth (hypanthium); petals 5, free; stamens numerous; carpels numerous and sunk in the calyx-tube.
Fruits: A head of achenes, enclosed by fleshy hypanthium; rounded to elliptic, 0.8-1.5 cm.
Habitat: Hedges and wood-margins.Distribution: Rather rare, only on limestone.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No