Article (misc)  (2005)  Page(s) 111, Table 5-1.  
 
R. suffulta : Pentaploid

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 173.  
 
location 226a, R. suffulta greene, CINNAMOMEAE, Eastern & Western North America 1880, deep pink, single, medium size, solitary or 2, floriferous, very early-blooming, bushy, 0,5-1 m, many bristles and prickles, medium-dark green medium-large matte foliage, 5-7 leaflets, red medium size rounded hips

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 43.  
 

Rosa suffulta..... 3 x 3’.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 35.  
 
Rosa suffulta. Clusters of single, pink flowers on a short plant with small orange heps. 1880. G. Shade tolerant. F. (S) 2 x 3’.

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 272.  Includes photo(s).
 
R. suffulta Greene. About o.5 m./1.7 ft. high, sometimes only suffruticose; stems green, densely covered with fine prickles and bristly, after anthesis dies back to the ground, while at the same time new stems for the next year are developed; leaflets 7-11, broadly elliptic to ovate-oblong, 2-4 cm./0.4-1.6 in. long, serrate, bright green, puberulent on both sides, mostly bald above, petiole and rachis hairy; flowers in corymbs, pink, 3 cm./1.2 in. across, June; pedicels and calyx-tube bald; sepals sometimes lobed; fruits globose, 1 cm./0.4 in. cross, red, with erected sepals. 2n = 28. WR 105 (= R. pratincola Greene; R. arkansana suffulta Cockerell; R. arkansanoides Schneid.). Eastern and Central U.S.A:

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 111.  
 
R. suffulta Grene
- Pittonia, IV, (1899), 12
(R. platincola Greene, R. arkansana S. Watts non Porter, R. heliophila Greene, R. platincola Greene non H. Braun, R. arkansanoides Schneid., R. angustiarum Cocerell)
Büsche: 1 m hoch; Triebe dicht mit Stacheln und Borsten bedeckt, grün.
Blätter: 7 bis 11 Blättchen; Blättchen breit-elliptisch bis länglich-eiförmig, 2 bis 4 cm lang, gesägt, hellgrün, an beiden Seiten filzig, die Oberseite gewöhnlich kahl, Rippen und Stiele fein behaart.
Blüten: in Dolden, 3 cm breit, rosa; Kelchblätter und Blütenstiele kahl, Kelchblätter gelappt. Blütezeit im Juni.
Früchte: kugelförmig, 1 cm im Durchmesser, rot, mit aufrechten Kelchblättern.
Verbreitungsgebiet: Nordamerika: USA (Ost- und Mittelstaaten), Kanada. Ist häufig in der Prärie anzutreffen.
Zierstrauch, ausserordentlich dürreresistent, wird bei hybridisationen als Partner genutzt, bis jetzt erhielt man jedoch keine Hybriden, die Aufmerksamkeit verdienen.

Book  (1964)  Page(s) 165.  
 
 [In "A Little Bit of Rose Breeding" by F. L. Skinner,Dropmore, Manitoba, Canada:]
...One of the earlier combinations I tried was the crossing of Rosa suffulta with the garden roses. I soon found that R. suffulta was a complete failure when used as seed parent, but hybrids of it could be raised when it was used as the male parent. Lately I have been more successful with its more southern relative, 'W. J. Fargo,'* a double rose of good form and clear pink color. 

Website/Catalog  (1949)  
 
"ROSA SUFFULTA - the very dwarf wild rose of the prairie wheatfields, where it is a persistent weed. Flowers of average size, though, and will bloom in fall and late fall if hoed off earlier in the summer. A valuable parent, transmitting dwarfness, drought resistance, an attractive bluish tone of foliage, and freedom from violet tones in the flower."

Percy Wright Catalogue - Hardy and Semi-Hardy Roses p. 10

Book  (1944)  Page(s) 76-78.  
 
"Rosa Suffulta as a Parent" by Percy Wright
Three natural doubles of the species have been picked up and to some extent propagated. The first is the Woodrow rose, from Woodrow in southwestern Saskatchewan; the second, unnamed, was found near Penzance in central Saskatchewan; and the third, Allan, was discovered near the North Dakota border by Agricultural Representative John Allan of North Battleford, Saskatchewan. Of these, the first, already being used by several U.S. rose breeders, is the most double and has the least pollen. The second I had, but have lost...The last is sufficiently double, and has an abundance of pollen, pollen that I have found to be fertile and active. The variety may prove to be the most valuable of all to the breeder.
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As a group, the Suffulta hybrids tend to have small flowers when double, of better size when single, all perfectly clear of blue...The plants are medium to very dwarf, fertile and prolific, and hardy to fifty degrees below zero [-45 degrees C]....

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 439.  
 
R. suffulta Greene. Low shrub to 0.5 m.; stems densely prickly and bristly, usually green; lfts. 7-11, broadly elliptic to obovate-oblong; 1,5-4 cm. long, usually obtuse, cuneate, simply serrate, finely pubescent on both sides or finally glabrous above; stipules dilated, glandular-dentate; petiole and rachis finely pubescent: fls. corymbose, pink, about 3 cm. across; pedicels and receptacle glabrous; sepals sometimes lobed: fr. globose, about 1 cm. across. Fl. VI. B.B.2:284. (R. pratincola Greene, not H. Br., R. heliophila Greene.) Alb. and Man. to Ill. and w. Tex. Cult. 1880. Zone III.