Rosa nutkanaC.Presl

Nootka rose

WFO wfo-0001014416 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Rosa nutkana, photographed by Gunnar Bonk
fig. a Gunnar Bonk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-25 / obs. 200599170
Rosa nutkana, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. b Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199506906
Rosa nutkana, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. c Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199499495
Rosa nutkana, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. d Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179450308
Rosa nutkana, photographed by sprcrkwild
fig. e sprcrkwild, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202044582
Rosa nutkana, photographed by Ellyne Geurts
fig. f Ellyne Geurts, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195417693
Rosa nutkana, photographed by Julia Carr
fig. g Julia Carr, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188824738

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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 = 1,282 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,282 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 36 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 aleutensis Crép.
  • Rosa anatonensis H.St.John
  • Rosa brownii Rydb.
  • Rosa caeruleomontana H.St.John
  • Rosa caryocarpa Douglas ex Crép.
  • Rosa columbiana Rydb.
  • Rosa delitescens Greene
  • Rosa durandii Crép.
  • Rosa jonesii H.St.John
  • Rosa lyalliana Crép.
  • Rosa macdougalii Holz.
  • Rosa macrocarpa Raf.
  • Rosa manca Erlanson
  • Rosa megacarpa Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray
  • Rosa megacarpa Nutt.
  • Rosa megalantha G.N.Jones
  • Rosa melina Greene
  • Rosa muriculata Greene
  • Rosa nutkana var. alta Suksd.
  • Rosa nutkana var. hispida Fernald
  • Rosa nutkana var. macdougalii (Holz.) M.E.Jones
  • Rosa nutkana var. microcarpa Crép.
  • Rosa nutkana var. muriculata (Greene) G.N.Jones
  • Rosa nutkana var. nutkana

and 12 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.