One finds Cascadia’s 4 species by the Gardens’ Kiosk 13: Nootka, intermingled with the Bald-hip, Wood’s, and Swamp Roses. The Bald-hip Rose is a short plant (~3 feet tall) with smaller flowers and hips (petals attach, these turn into a fruit, also used to make a jelly) and ¼” long, small seed pod whereas the Nootka can be 6 feet tall with 1” hips. The
Swamp Rose is distinguished from the Nootka by its smaller (as are the Bald-hip) flowers, but in groups of 2 – 20 (and is often called the Clustered Rose). And the Wood’s Rose can grow to 10 feet tall; all rose hips (seed pods) contain Vitamin C and were a staple fruit-food for the Native Americans. PLC’s sponsored WWU SAM Project’s evidence suggests that roses once were ubiquitous; but are now much more rarely found in the Northwest. Nootka Roses, once a commonplace shrub (named after the Nuu-Chah-Nulth tribe that lived in Nootka Sound) are disappearing the fastest. Drive a rural road west of the Cascade Crest today and one rarely sees any native roses. After logging, modern forest practices spray to eliminate deciduous plants – we wash down our hills and mountains with herbicides every 40 years. Cascadia, every timber parcel, is cleansed by herbicides regularly, much of the demise occurring on millions of acres of State (DNR) and Federal Forests used for timber production.
https://nativeplantspnw.com/clustered-wild-rose/
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/ina/roses/roses.html
https://collections.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/taxon-7611.aspx
http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=nootka+rose
https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/rosa-nutkana
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Kiosk-13.pdf
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-mass-extinction-60-minutes-2023-01-01/
https://sccr2017.org/2021/07/24/2021-aerial-spraying-by-weyerhaeuser-in-snohomish-county/
Our native roses come in the color of:
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