Rosa caninaL.

Dog-rose

WFO wfo-0001005999 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Rosa canina, photographed by Daniel Seth Jackson
fig. a Daniel Seth Jackson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205797858
Rosa canina, photographed by Bin Aden
fig. b Bin Aden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205867685
Rosa canina, photographed by Howard Williams
fig. c Howard Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205233275
Rosa canina, photographed by Karen Fry
fig. d Karen Fry, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205543355
Rosa canina, photographed by Phil James
fig. e Phil James, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204217453
Rosa canina, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203009123
Rosa canina, photographed by Milan Keršláger
fig. g Milan Keršláger, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203164210
Rosa canina, photographed by David Lazarus
fig. h David Lazarus, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204476649

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,705 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 2,705 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 1131 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Crepinia aciphylla (A.Rau) Gand.
  • Crepinia canina (L.) Gand.
  • Crepinia lemaitrei (Ripart ex Verl.) Gand.
  • Crepinia myrtilloides (Tratt.) Gand.
  • Crepinia psilophylla (A.Rau) Gand.
  • Crepinia surculosa (Woods) Gand.
  • Crepinia venosa (Steven ex Tratt.) Gand.
  • Rosa aciphylla A.Rau
  • Rosa aciphylla var. macropetala J.B.Keller & Wiesb.
  • Rosa actinodroma Gand.
  • Rosa adenocalyx Gren.
  • Rosa adenocalyx unranked adenopoda Gren.
  • Rosa adenocalyx unranked gymnopoda Gren.
  • Rosa adscita Déségl.
  • Rosa adscita var. orthacantha (A.Kern. ex Christ) Posp.
  • Rosa adscita var. typica Posp.
  • Rosa afzeliana Fr.
  • Rosa afzeliana f. alba Herring
  • Rosa agraria Ripart ex Déségl.
  • Rosa agrestina Ripart ex Déségl.
  • Rosa albolutescens Ripart ex Déségl.
  • Rosa amansii Déségl. & Ripart
  • Rosa ancarensis Pau & Merino
  • Rosa andegavensis f. innersteinensis J.B.Keller & Wiesb.

and 1107 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.