Scientific name: Rosa pimpinellifolia L.
Common name: Burnet Rose, Scotch Rose
Description
Habit: A deciduous, bushy, spiny shrub, to 80 cm high, strongly suckering.
Stems: Erect, spiny, prickles numerous, straight and slender, not expanded at the base; with prickly hairs.
Leaves: Alternate, small, hairless, stalked, with leafy stipules fused with the leaf stalk, pinnate with toothed leaflets.
Flowers: White, rarely pale pink, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 2-4 cm across, solitary; 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; black, globose.
Habitat: Rocky, stony or sandy ground.Distribution: Abundant in the Burren, occasional elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No