Newsletter  (Aug 2014)  Page(s) 7.  
 
[From "Nevada City’s Pine Grove Cemetery: Revisiting Old Survivors", by Kathy Hammes, Joy Feller and Kathy Granlund, pp. 6-10]
“Red Runaround,” Ismert plot: Peter Ismert died in 1876 and Eva in 1900. Both of their headstones say they were natives of France. This original plant now covers almost the entire plot and survives every summer without water. Maybe the Ismerts brought it with them when they came over?

Newsletter  (Feb 2012)  Page(s) 20.  
 
In the Historic Rose Garden of Sacramento’s Old Historic Cemetery, we have a number of once-blooming roses that are born from crosses of European and China roses.....“Little (or Old) Red Runaround” is one example of a Hybrid China.

Website/Catalog  (2000)  Page(s) 29.  
 
"Old Red Runaround" HCh. No rebloom. Outstanding fragrance. Habit [diagram] 2. Found 20th c. [Provenance Robinson found]. Found in more old gardens, cemeteries and roadsides than perhaps any other rose in America, this small red pompon flowered rose is a true survivor.

Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Rosa gallica made its way to North America with the European colonists where it generated some new forms, like Red Run Around... in the California countryside... semi-double and somewhat domesticated.

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 117.  Includes photo(s).
 
A loose shrub, that forms large thickets by suckering, hence its common name. A semi-double red Rosa gallica of unknown origin, often naturalized near old cottages in California.