Rosa multifloraThunb.

multiflora rose

WFO wfo-0001001254 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Rosa multiflora, photographed by Liz Crafford
fig. a Liz Crafford, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205738531
Rosa multiflora, photographed by KB DiAngelo
fig. b KB DiAngelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205739158
Rosa multiflora, photographed by Mila C.
fig. c Mila C., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205842535
Rosa multiflora, photographed by Jill DeVito, PhD
fig. d Jill DeVito, PhD, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205767823
Rosa multiflora, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. e Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205223192
Rosa multiflora, photographed by Jack Beusmans
fig. f Jack Beusmans, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205414116
Rosa multiflora, photographed by Nic Tippery
fig. g Nic Tippery, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205201937
Rosa multiflora, photographed by kevinhemeon
fig. h kevinhemeon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205490737

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

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 = 6,756 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 6,756 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 82 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.

  • Rosa adenochaeta Koidz.
  • Rosa adenoclada H.Lév.
  • Rosa blinii H.Lév.
  • Rosa calva var. cathayensis Boulenger
  • Rosa cathayensis (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) L.H.Bailey
  • Rosa cathayensis var. exigua L.H.Bailey
  • Rosa damascena f. brachyacantha Focke
  • Rosa dawsoniana Rehder
  • Rosa diffusa Roxb.
  • Rosa florida Poir.
  • Rosa franchetii Koidz.
  • Rosa gentiliana H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Rosa gentiliana var. adenoclada H.Lév.
  • Rosa grevillei Sweet
  • Rosa intermedia Carrière
  • Rosa kwangsiensis H.L.Li
  • Rosa lebrunei H.Lév.
  • Rosa macrophylla var. hypoleuca H.Lév.
  • Rosa mokanensis var. quelpaertensis (H.Lév.) E.Willm.
  • Rosa multiflora Bunge
  • Rosa multiflora f. cathayensis (Rehder & E.H.Wilson) Kitam.
  • Rosa multiflora f. erubescens (Nakai) Sugim.
  • Rosa multiflora f. glabrescens (Honda) Sugim.
  • Rosa multiflora f. glabrifoliolata Uyeki

and 58 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.