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Scientific name: Rosa virginiana Mill.
Synonym: Rosa lucida Ehrh. Common name: Virginia Rose
Family: Rosaceae; Rose
Origin: Native
Habitat: dry and damp thickets
Image: Rosa virginiana Mill. 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 are two
herbarium specimens of Rosa virginiana P.Mill. collected in Floyd County, Georgia in 1800’s. Specimen AUA 433 was collected in 1898 by Eliza F. Andrews (1840-1931), a botanist and writer, and AUA 436 by Alvin W. Chapman (1809-1899), a famous southern botanist in 1872, or 1882, or in 1890'.
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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: 872
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
Eliza F. Andrews's Collection from Floyd County, Georgia
A.W. Chapman collection from Floyd County, Georgia
Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.