rugosa rose USDA PLANTS Symbol: RORU
U.S. Nativity: Exotic
Habit: Shrub or Subshrub
Rosa rugosa Thunb.

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Taxonomic Rank: Magnoliopsida: Rosales: Rosaceae
Native Range: China, Korea, Japan (REHD);

Identification, Biology, Control and Management Resources

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Cultivar; 'Rubra'
The Dow Gardens Archive, Dow Gardens, Bugwood.org
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EDDMapS Distribution:
This map is incomplete and is based only on current site and county level reports made by experts and records obtained from USDA Plants Database. For more information, visit www.eddmaps.org
 


State(s) Where Reported invasive.
Based on state level agency and organization lists of invasive plants from WeedUS database.

Native Alternatives:
Clethra alnifolia (coastal sweetpepperbush)
Prunus virginiana (chokecherry)
Rosa setigera (climbing rose)
Rubus odoratus (purpleflowering raspberry)


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Invasive Listing Sources:
Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group
Faith Campbell, 1998. Plants that Hog the Garden: Invasive Plants in the United States. Fine Gardening Online
John Randall, The Nature Conservancy, Survey of TNC Preserves, 1995.
Mid-Atlantic Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2005
New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, 2004
Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, Pennsylvania.
Reichard, Sarah. 1994.  Assessing the potential of invasiveness in woody plants introduced in North America. University of Washington Ph.D. dissertation.
Rhode Island Natural History Society,