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Memorial Rose

Rosa luciae

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) cowry639, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.

United States	455
North Carolina	93
Japan	59
Tennessee	47
Virginia	47
New York	37
Maryland	27
West Virginia	23
Tokyo	21
Massachusetts	20

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Restoration or landscaping useListed as being used for restoration, landscaping, ornamental planting, erosion control, soil improvement, shade, windbreaks, pollution indicators, or wastewater purification.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies · Rosales
Family	rose family · Rosaceae
Genus	roses · Rosa

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Memorial Rose with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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