Prickly Wild Rose
Rosa acicularis
Bird foodPollinator plant
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Growing it
| When | Flowers June to July; fruits August to September |
|---|---|
| Type | shrub |
| Sun | Full sun, partial shade |
| Water | Low, medium |
| Soil | pH 5.5–7.5 |
| Hardiness | zone 2–6 |
| Mature height | 1.5 m |
| Mature spread | 1.5 m |
| Spacing | 1 m |
| Years to maturity | 3 |
| Bloom | Jun–Jul |
| Flower colour | Pink not verified, a genus-level estimate |
| In bloom | June July |
| Fruit | Aug–Sep |
| Native to | AB, SK |
feather-compound leaves about 8 cm long; several stems from the base
Where it has been recorded
Which ecoregions the records fall in
- Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 663 records, high confidence
- Eastern Continental Ranges central AB: 253 records, high confidence
- Northern Continental Divide south AB: 157 records, high confidence
- Mid-Boreal Uplands central AB / SK: 150 records, high confidence
- Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 140 records, high confidence
- Western Alberta Upland central AB: 127 records, high confidence
- Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 107 records, high confidence
- Fescue Grassland south AB: 57 records, high confidence
- Peace Lowland north AB: 43 records, high confidence
- Cypress Upland south AB / SK: 33 records, high confidence
- Wabasca Lowland north AB: 32 records, high confidence
- Slave River Lowland north AB: 26 records, high confidence
- Athabasca Plain north AB / SK: 14 records, medium confidence
- Tazin Lake Upland north AB / SK: 13 records, medium confidence
- Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 8 records, medium confidence
- Hay River Lowland north AB: 7 records, low confidence
- Churchill River Upland north SK: 6 records, low confidence
- Western Boreal central AB: 5 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
58 documented relationships.
pollen for
- A Digger Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- A Leafcutter Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Agapostemon splendens Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Andrena crataegi Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Andrena vicina Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Bear-like Digger Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Black-tailed Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Central Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Chalcosyrphus piger Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Cortodera longicornis Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Eristalis stipator Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Eupeodes americanus Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Gnathacmaeops pratensis Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Hoplitis albifrons Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Hoplitis fulgida Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Hunt's Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Hylaeus annulatus Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Hylaeus basalis Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Mallota bautias Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Megachile melanophaea Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Megachile texana Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Orange-banded Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Osmia bruneri Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Osmia densa Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Osmia proxima Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Red-belted Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Syrphus opinator Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Systoechus vulgaris Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Western Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Xylota flavitibia Clements & F. L. Long 1923
- Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Clements & F. L. Long 1923
nectar for
- A Flower Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- A Leafcutter Bee Packer
- Black-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- 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 iNaturalist.org
- Evodinus monticola Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Gnathacmaeops pratensis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Golden-haired Flower Longhorn Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Grammoptera subargentata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Helophilus hybridus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Hunt's Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Judolia montivagans Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Orange-banded Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Orsodacne atra Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Pseudogaurotina cressoni Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Red-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Trichiotinus assimilis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Tricoloured Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Two-ranked Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Yellow-banded Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
fruit for
- Bohemian Waxwing Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Ruffed Grouse hurlbertlab/dietdatabaseMcGowan & J. D 1973
nest site for
- Song Sparrow Cornell Lab of Ornithology
caterpillar host for
- Spiny Rose Gall Wasp 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), sometimes in big-box garden sections. Estimate (shrub default); AB retail as of 2026
Where these numbers came from
- Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate