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Scientific name: Rosa setigera Michx..
Common name: Prairie Rose, Climbing Rose
Family: Rosaceae; Rose
Origin: Native
Habitat: thickets
Image: Rosa setigera Michx., at the Road of Remembrance, "Old Stretch Road", flatwoods of the Berry College Campus, Mt. Berry, Georgia; June 2, 2009
Comments: At John D. Freeman Herbarium (AUA), Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama there is
herbarium specimen AUA No. 430 of Rosa setigera Michx. ,
Prairie Rose collected in Floyd County, Georgia in 1872, or 1882, or in 1890' and identified by Alvin W. Chapman (1809-1899), ), a famous southern botanist.
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Last updated on January 13, 2011.
References : Botanical Exploration in Floyd County, Georgia
© Copyright Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford! 2009.-2011.,
1. Fernald, Merritt L. Gray's Manual of Botany 8ed. New York: D.Van Nostrand, 1970: 870
2. Image by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford
3. USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
Flatwoods at Berry College, Mt. Berry, Floyd County, Northwest Georgia, United States
A.W. Chapman collection from Floyd County, Georgia
Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.