Book  (1937)  Page(s) 78.  
 
setigera Michx. (Synst. - America) (pollen mediocre) [ploidy] 14

Magazine  (Jun 1929)  Page(s) 74.  
 
Rosa setigera, Michx 
Syn. R. rubifolia, R. Bro. hort. Rosier à feuilles de ronce. Rosier des prairies.
Rameaux sarmenteux ou mi-sarmenteux, érigés, longs de 2 à 3 mètres, lisses, vert clair ou vert bronzé, portant quelques aiguillons épais et presque droits, entremêlés de soies à la partie inférieure des rameaux.
Feuilles à 3-5 folioles, ovales, lancéolées, nervées, glabres, vert clair en dessus, glauque en dessous. Celles de l'extrémité des rameaux ressemblent à des feuilles de ronce.
Fleurs petites, rose, réunies par 3 à 10 en corymbes, calice glanduleux ainsi que les pédoncules.
Fruits. Globuleux, lisses, de la grosseur d'un pois.
Originaire de l'Amérique du Nord, cette espèce résiste très bien au froid. Cependant, depuis que nous avons les Wichuraïana et leurs nombreux hybrides, les hybrides de multiflores sarmenteux, cette espèce, bien que très vigoureuse, est délaissée, ses quelques variétés de même, et Belle de Baltimore ou Prairie belle ne sont plus que des souvenirs de nos jeunes années.
...Le R. setigera, syn. R. rubifolia, est très vigoureux, possède un joli feuillage luisant, et si autrefois on avait su pratiquer la fécondation artificielle comme aujourd'hui, nul doute que ce rosier type ne soit devenu le point de départ de variétés intéressantes.

Website/Catalog  (1924)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Rosa setigera.- Rose foncé passant au blanc.

Website/Catalog  (1923)  Page(s) 54.  
 
Rosa setigera (Michaux). Vigorous variety, according to Baker the proper Prairie rose. Homeland: Canada and Eastern N. America. Varieties are among others Beauty of Prairies and Baltimore Belle.

Book  (1922)  Page(s) 48.  
 
The Prairie rose (R. setigera) has good shrub quality, and grows to about six feet in height. Its pale pink flowers are exquisite, its grayish foliage is distinct, and it lends to any garden an air of stability, of naturalness.

Book  (1919)  Page(s) 443.  
 
R. SETIGERA, Michaux. PRAIRIE ROSE.
(R. rubifolia, R. Brown.)
A rambling shrub making slender stems several yards long in a season, armed with short, hooked prickles, not downy. Leaves trifoliolate, with a downy, glandular stalk and narrow stipules edged with glands. Leaflets among the largest in the genus, up to 3 ins. long by over 2 ins. wide ; ovate, coarsely toothed, deep green and smooth above, pale and downy beneath. Flowers 2 to 2½ ins. across, deep, rose, numerous in corymbs ; the stalk glandular. Sepals ovate, pointed, ½ in. long, very downy. Fruit globose, about ½ in. diameter, with the sepals fallen away.
Native of E. and Central North America, from Ontario to Florida, and west to Kansas and Texas. Introduced in 1800. This is the most distinct and, in its flowers, perhaps the most beautiful of N. American roses. It is the only one from that region belonging to the group whose styles are united in a column (Synstylæ) ; the only one with normally three leaflets, and the only climbing species. It is an attractive plant, producing its large, rich rosy blossoms in clusters 6 ins. or more across, but they have little or no fragrance. Flowering in July and August when few wild roses or shrubs of any kind are in flower, its value is increased. It may be trained up rough branches of oak, then left to form a tangle. Several garden varieties have been raised from it.
 

Website/Catalog  (1917)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Rosa Setigera, Prairie Rose climbing, 1 to 1 1/2 ft....$ .12

Website/Catalog  (1917)  Page(s) 13.  
 
Rosa Setigera Prairie Rose climbing
18 in. pots....10 $ 1.00, 100 $ 7.00
2 to 3 ft....10 $ 1.50, 100 $ 12.00

Website/Catalog  (1914)  Page(s) 5.  
 
Setigera (species), decorative shrub; blooms July-August, very large, pink, single, very hardy

Book  (1912)  Page(s) 41.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa setigera Michaux