Scientific Name: Rosa rugosa
Common Name(s): Beach Rose, Japanese Rose, Turkestan rose
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Research Summary: Mina B.
My species, the Rosa rugosa, was challenging to research at times but easy at others. Since I had a plant that could be sold, I found a lot of resources telling me how and where to buy my species rather than how it was invasive. Most of my information came from PDFs, although some came from websites. The websites that I did get information from had mostly the same facts, so I had to go to a lot of different ones to get good information. I knew that it was going to be hard so it didn’t surprise me that much.
The most interesting thing that I found out about the Rosa rugosa was that the animals that eat my plant only eat the rose hips and not the flowers or leaves. Isn't that weird?
Taxonomy of Species
| Scientific Classification
|| What That Classification Means|
|Kingdom||Plantea||Many- celled, eukaryotic (with a nucleus), make their own food.|
|Phylum||Magnoliophyta||A flowering plant that produces seeds in an enclosed ovary.|
|Class||Magnoliopida|| Seed plants that produce an embryo (an organism in its early stages of |
|Order||Rosales||It is an order of a flowering plant.|
|Family||Rosaceae||A large family of flowering plants.|
||Large genus of straight or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.|
|Species||Rugosa|| It means Japanese Rose.|
Similar species include: The rosa spp. or wild roses such as the multiflora rose. Also similar to the
Origin/ Native Range
| Is native to Asia: Japan, China, and Korea.|
|Spread of Species||
|Where is it now invasive?||
|Is this species in Maine?
||This species is in Maine.|
|Where has it been identified?
|How was this species introduced?
||People planted it in their gardens and it is used to control beach erosion.|
Likes to live on sandy dunes, shores, rock cliffs or ledges, roadsides, vacant lots, open and |
disturbed areas, and isn't picky about the soil.
|Climate and Temperature Range
||It likes it where the temperature varies and grows almost anywhere.|
|Ecological Interactions|| Producer.|
|| My species gets its nutrition from the sun through the process called photosynthesis.|
If they are blocking path ways we can't walk through them, because they are too prickly.
|Biological||There is no insect or fungal control.|
|Mechanical/Manual|| You can use a weed whacker or a bush hog (rotating cutters used on the farm) to get rid of the |
- So many people don't want to cut it down because of its beauty.
- It was introduced to Europe in the 18th century.