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'R. humilis lucida' rose References
Book (May 1998) Page(s) 26-27. Includes photo(s).
Rosa lucida ('Glossy Rose') Description... Flowers clear pink... Rosa lucida is native to North America...
Book (1997) Page(s) 1. Includes photo(s).
Book (Feb 1993) Page(s) 39. Includes photo(s).
Book (1993) Page(s) 66. Includes photo(s).
[Listed under "Wild Roses and Their Cultivars"] (Rosa virginiana syn. Rosa lucida) Description. Common in north-eastern North America.
Book (May 1992) Page(s) 5. Includes photo(s).
Book (Aug 1990) Page(s) 12.
Rosa virginiana... ranges over a large part of eastern North America. The British herbalist John Parkinson described this rose with flesh-pink flowers and small, shining leaves... in 1640... Plants of R. virginiana were shipped from Virginia to England in 1724, making it one of the earliest North American roses known to have been cultivated in Europe...
Website/Catalog (1986) Page(s) 37.
Rosa virginiana.....good in sandy soil. 5 x 3’.
Website/Catalog (1982) Page(s) 35.
Rose virginiana (Species) A dense small shrub with light green foliage and small single pink flowers. The plump red heps last well into the Winter. Also splendid autumn colours. Likes sandy soil. Prior to 1807. F. W. H. Shade tolerant. (S) 4 x 3’.
Magazine (1981) Page(s) 1. Vol 3, No.4.
Editor: .....after a season of old roses such as I have never had before. A few are still in full bloom as I write.
R. virginiana with intense, shiny bright green leaves and pink flowers.
Book (1981) Page(s) 268. Includes photo(s).
R. virginiana Mill. Upright shrub, to 1.5 m./5 ft. high, stems often red-brown, few suckers, if any; prickles hooked, but young branches often bristly; leaves glossy green, leaflets 7-9, elliptic to ovate, 2-6 cm./0.8-2.4 in. long, sharply serrate, hairy on the veins beneath; flowers several together or solitary, pink, June-July, floriferous; fruits subglobiose, 1.5 cm./0.6 in. across. 2n=28. WR 197; BB 2285; VP 447. (= R. lucida Ehrh.; R. carolinensis Marsh.) E. N. America. Before 1807. (Fig. 140).
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