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|accepted_name=Rosa foliolosa
|accepted_authority=Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 460. 1840
|year=1840
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|common_names=White prairie rose
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rosa ignota
|authority=Shinners
}}
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae;Rosaceae tribe Roseae;Rosa;Rosa subg. Rosa;Rosa sect. Rosa;Rosa foliolosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Roseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rosa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Rosa subg. Rosa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Rosa sect. Rosa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rosa foliolosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 96, 104
|treatment_page=page 103
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> forming thickets or not. <b>Stems</b> erect to deflexed, 3–6 dm, densely branched; bark dull reddish brown, sometimes green, glabrous; infrastipular prickles paired, erect, subulate, 2–5 × 0.5–1 mm, base glabrous, internodal prickles or aciculi rare, sometimes absent. <b>Leaves</b> 3–7 cm; stipules 6–14 × 1.5–4 mm, auricles flared, 2–3 mm, margins entire or glandular-serrate, eglandular, surfaces glabrous, rarely puberulent, eglandular; petiole and rachis with pricklets, usually glabrous, stipitate-glandular; leaflets (5–)9(–11), terminal: petiolule 1–4(–6) mm, blade lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 14–25 × 3–7 mm, membranous, base long-cuneate, margins 1-serrate, gland-tipped or eglandular, teeth 9–15 per side, gland-tipped, apex acute, abaxial surfaces light green, glabrous, eglandular, exserted midveins sometimes with sparse pricklets, pubescent, stipitate-glandular, adaxial deep green, lustrous, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> corymbs, 1(–5)-flowered. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, slender, 2–8 mm, glabrous, stipitate-glandular; bracts 2, lanceolate, 8–12 × 3–4 mm, margins entire, few stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, eglandular. <b>Flowers</b> 3.5–4.5 cm diam.; hypanthium subglobose, globose, or ovoid, 4–4.5 × 2.5–4 mm, glabrous, usually densely stipitate-glandular, neck absent; sepals reflexed or spreading, lanceolate, 13–20 × 2–3 mm, tip 3 × 0.5 mm, margins pinnatifid, abaxial surfaces glabrous or puberulent, stipitate-glandular; petals single, white, rarely pink, 17–28 × (6–)10–18 mm; carpels 20–32, styles exsert 1–1.5 mm beyond stylar orifice (1.5–2 mm diam.) of hypanthial disc (3–4 mm diam.). <b>Hips</b> dull red, globose to depressed-globose, rarely urceolate, 9–10 × 7–9 mm, leathery, glabrous, densely stipitate-glandular, neck absent or insignificant; sepals deciduous, spreading to erect. <b>Achenes</b> mostly basal, 8–12, tan, 4(–5) × 1.5–2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Blackland prairies, dry hillsides and woods, roadside and railroad verges, slopes and ravines, limestone and sandstone hills
|elevation=200–500 m
|distribution=Ark.;Kans.;Okla.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>The Kansas distribution of <i>Rosa foliolosa</i> is limited to Cherokee and Neosho counties, bordering Missouri and Oklahoma.</p><!--
--><p><i>Rosa foliolosa</i> is the only white rose native to North America; a pink form is known from Wise County, Texas (W. H. Lewis 1959). <i>Rosa foliolosa</i> is the most distinctive and geographically limited native <i>Rosa</i> in eastern North America, readily recognized by its white or, rarely, pink, narrow (6–18 mm) petals, lustrous, deep green and narrow (9 mm) leaflets, short pedicels (2–8 mm), leathery, dull red hips, and mostly basal achenes.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=lewis1959b
|text=Lewis, W. H. 1959. A monograph of the genus Rosa in North America. II. R. foliolosa. SouthW. Naturalist 3: 145–153.
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name=Rosa foliolosa
|author=
|authority=Nuttall ex Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Rosa ignota
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Blackland prairies, dry hillsides and woods, roadside and railroad verges, slopes and ravines, limestone and sandstone hills
|elevation=200–500 m
|distribution=Ark.;Kans.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=lewis1959b
|publication title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1840
|special status=Endemic;Selected by author to be illustrated
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Rosoideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Roseae
|genus=Rosa
|subgenus=Rosa subg. Rosa
|section=Rosa sect. Rosa
|species=Rosa foliolosa
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