Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
Bird foodPollinator plant

(c) Joshua Mayer, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
Growing it
| When | Flowers June to August; fruits in September |
|---|---|
| Type | shrub |
| Sun | Full sun |
| Water | Low |
| Soil | pH 5.5–7.5 |
| Hardiness | zone 3–7 |
| Mature height | 0.5 m |
| Mature spread | 1.2 m |
| Spacing | 0.8 m |
| Years to maturity | 2 |
| Bloom | Jun–Aug |
| Flower colour | Pink not verified, a genus-level estimate |
| In bloom | June July August |
| Fruit | Sep |
| Native to | AB, SK |
feather-compound leaves about 7 cm long; several stems from the base
Where it has been recorded
Which ecoregions the records fall in
- Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 774 records, high confidence
- Fescue Grassland south AB: 662 records, high confidence
- Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 324 records, high confidence
- Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 275 records, high confidence
- Cypress Upland south AB / SK: 83 records, high confidence
- Northern Continental Divide south AB: 38 records, high confidence
- Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 20 records, high confidence
- Peace Lowland north AB: 16 records, medium confidence
- Mid-Boreal Uplands central AB / SK: 4 records, low confidence
- Western Alberta Upland central AB: 4 records, low confidence
These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.
See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.
Documented animals
22 documented relationships.
nectar for
- American Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Andrena carlini Clint Otto et al. 2020
- Andrena crataegi Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Andrena nivalis Clint Otto et al. 2020
- Augochlorella aurata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee Clint Otto et al. 2020
- Calligrapher Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Central Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Confusing Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Cryptic Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Eristalis stipator Clint Otto et al. 2020
- Golden Northern Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Grammoptera subargentata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Hunt's Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Hylaeus affinis Clint Otto et al. 2020
- Lasioglossum pruinosum Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Nevada Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Orange-banded Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Red-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Tricoloured Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Tropidia quadrata Clint Otto et al. 2020
- Western Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Also worth knowing
Safety
Has thorns or prickles; Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety
Edible parts
Fruit, flowers
Buying it
About $25–$50 per plant (estimate), usually from a native-plant nursery. Estimate (shrub default); AB retail as of 2026
Where these numbers came from
- Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate