shrub
Multiflora rose
Rosa multiflora
CautionEdibleabundant
Invasive living wire. Fringed stipules, clusters of small white roses, then hips.
Arching canes with curved thorns. The giveaway is a fringed, comb-like pair of stipules at each leaf base. Flowers in many-flowered clusters.
- Habitat
- Every neglected fencerow in Dearborn County.
- Season
- Flowers May; hips fall–winter.
- Size
- Dense thicket
- Field marks
- Fringed stipules; clustered white roses
Use
Hips for tea and vitamin C after frost (strain hairs). Goats will clear it. Do not plant it.