Scientific name: Rosa rubiginosa L.
Common name: Sweet-briar
Description
Habit: A deciduous or evergreen spiny shrub, to 2 m high.
Stems: Erect, with large and hooked spines and often also small, straight ones.
Leaves: Alternate, stalked, with leafy stipules fused with the leaf stalk, slightly hairy or hairless on upperside, lowerside covered with scented and small glands, pinnate; with a sweet apple-like scent.
Flowers: Pink, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 3-4 cm across, flower stalks glandular-hairy, solitary or in small groups; sepals 5, toothed / lobed 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; ovoid, often sparsely glandular.
Habitat: Hedges and disturbed ground.Distribution: Rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No