Scientific name: Rosa sherardii Davies
Common name: Sherard's Downy-rose
Description
Habit: A deciduous or evergreen spiny shrub, to 1.5 high.
Stems: Erect, zig-zag, spines slender.
Leaves: Alternate, stalked, with leafy stipules fused with the leaf stalk, with glands, pinnate; with a turpentine-like smell.
Flowers: Deep pink or sometimes white, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 2.5-4 cm across, solitary or in corymbs; sepals 5, erect, toothed / lobed, persistent, calyx 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; globose, 1.5-2.5 cm.
Habitat: Roadsides, hedges and rough grazing.Distribution: Occasional to frequent.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No