Article (magazine)  (2001)  Page(s) 393.  
 
R. spaldingii Crep. Ploidy 6x
Pollen fertility 4.3%
Selfed Fruit set 0%

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 173.  
 
location 143a, 146/12, 149; R. spaldingii Crép., CINNAMOMEAE, North America 1915, pink, single, mild fragrance, medium-large, solitary or cluster-flowered, bushy, upright, 1,8-2 m, branched, few large prickles, many bristles, dark green medium size matte-glossy foliage, 5-9 leaflets, orange-red medium-large, matte-glossy ovoid hips, erect-extended firm sepals, fall of complete, few hips

Website/Catalog  (1983)  Page(s) 39.  
 

Rosa spaldingii.  (White form). Lovely, single, paperish white flowers on a dwarf plant with copious light green foliage. 1930. W. P. Shade tolerant. (S) 4 x 3’

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 35.  
 

R. spaldingii (White form) Lovely, single, paperish flowers of rose-pink on a dwarf plant with copious, light green foliage. 1930. W. Shade tolerant. (S) 4 x 3’.

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 277.  
 
Rosa spaldingii Crép. Shrub to 1 m./3.3 ft. high, stems upright, with straight infrastipular prickles, 5-10 mm./0.2-0.4 in. long, young shoots bristly, flowering branches bald, sparsely prickly; petiole and rachis hairy, leaflets 5-7, elliptic or broadly so, 1-1.5 cm./0.4-0.6 in. long, coarsely toothed, rarely doubly, scarcely glandular, light green and bald above, pale and hairy beneath; flowers solitary, pedicels and calyx-tube bald, sepals lanceolate-caudate, etire or with foliaceous tips, bald; flowers solitary or few together, pink, 5 cm./2 in. across, May-July; fruits globose, 12 mm./0.5 in. thick, red. AFP 2506. W. N. America.

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 118.  
 
Rosa nutkana...Closely related species:
R. spaldingii Crép. - with pink blooms, to 5 cm in diameter, North America. In culture since 1915 (according to McFarland).

Book  (1944)  Page(s) 459.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa Spaldingii Crepin. Spalding's Rose. Fig. 2506.
Rosa macrocarpa Raf. Med. Fl. 2: 258. 1830. Not Merat, 1812.
Rosa Spaldingii Crepin, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 12: 420. 1876.

Stems erect, about 1 m. high, brown, usually with straight infrastipular prickles, 5-10 mm. long, young shoots usually bristly, flowering branches glabrous, sparsely prickly. Leaves 5-7-foliolate; petioles and rachis puberulent and sometimes slightly glandular; leaflets oval or broadly oval, 1.5-5 cm. long, coarsely toothed, the teeth seldom double and scarcely glandular, light green and glabrous above, pale and puberulent beneath ; flowers usually solitary ; pedicels glabrous; hypanthium glabrous; sepals lanceolate, caudate-attenuate, entire, sometimes with foliaceous tips, glabrous or very rarely glandular on the back; fruiting hypanthium globose, 12-18 mm. broad.
British Columbia to eastern Oregon, Wyoming, and Utah. Type locality: Clearwater, Idaho. May- July.

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 441.  
 
R. nutkana...Related species: R. Spaldingii Crép. Lfts. 5-7, oval, usually obtuse, with simple scarcely glandular teeth, puberulent beneath: pedicels glabrous. B. C. to Ore. and Utah. Cult. 1915. Zone V.

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 78.  
 
Spaldingii Crép. (nutkana-family) [pollen quality] 91% [ploidy] 42