Participant Info

Species

Rosa woodsii [Rosa blanda] [Rosa manca] [Rosa woodsii subsp. manca] [Rosa woodsii subsp. woodsii]

Family

Rosaceae

CommonName

Woods' rose

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1900

LatestDate

2018

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta

Passes

Cumbres, La Veta, Mosca, North, South

WildlifePreserves

Baca, Great Sand Dunes, Rio Grande

Other Localities

Alamosa (town), La Botica

PhotoRecords

YES Mary E. McDonald: Conejos Co, Conejos River between Mogote and Aspen Glade cpgds 5 July 2022; Rich Haswell: Saguache Co, Carnero Creek 8 miles NNW of La Garita 11 June 2020

Comments

Woods' rose has been very often collected from both sides of the Valley and from a wide range of habitats, including stream sides, forest understory, and open meadows. Basin and foothill records tend to be from thickets along water courses. Probably a great many of the determinations are actually of Rosa nutkana (see Lewis & Ertter, 2007, 2010). Allred et al. (2020) call variation in R. woodsii "extensive and bewildering." The USA distribution is all states west of the Great Plains and the upper Great Plains and Midwest. R. woodsii follows the Rio Grande drainage to the tip of west Texas. The correct spelling of the common name, by the way, is "Woods' rose," not "Wood's rose," since it was named after Joseph Woods, famed British horticulturalist.

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