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Barbara Ertter explains why the name Rosa bridgesii Crépin ex Rydberg should be "conserved" (a technical term meaning allowed as an exception to the rules of taxonomic nomenclature) for a "relatively well-defined dwarf rose characteristic of mid-montane forests of the western Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range of California and southern Oregon" to which many different names have been given by botanists.
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Published in Taxon 56(3), Aug. 2007:962-964, available online without charge from Taxon, the International Association for Plant Taxonomy.
