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infestation growing along a fence (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

older stem with large thorns (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

the hairless leaves usually have three finely toothed leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

flower bud with numerous spiny bristles on its base and sepals (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

flower (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of flower showing numerous stamens (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

young fruit beginning to develop (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

bristly mature fruit with persistent sepals (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Rosa laevigata

Scientific Name

Rosa laevigata Michx.

Family

Rosaceae

Common Names

Cherokee rose

Origin

Native to eastern Asia (i.e. China, Taiwan and northern Vietnam).

Naturalised Distribution

Occasionally naturalised in eastern Australia (i.e. in south-eastern Queensland and the coastal districts of northern New South Wales) and in the coastal districts of south-western Western Australia.

Also naturalised overseas in south-eastern USA (i.e. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia) and Hawaii.

Notes

Cherokee rose (Rosa laevigata) is regarded as a minor environmental weed or "sleeper weed" in Australia. This species has occasionally escaped from cultivation as a garden ornamental. It is mainly found as a rampant scrambler along creeklines in the Nannup region in south-western Western Australia.