Minnesota Seasons - prairie rose


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Rosa arkansana








Identification	See Subordinate Taxa (below) for identifying information.

Range			Sources: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8.

Sightings	Afton State Park Banning State Park Blanket Flower Prairie SNA Blue Mounds State Park Bunker Hills Regional Park Camden State Park Chippewa Prairie Clinton Prairie SNA Cottonwood River Prairie SNA Crow-Hassan Park Reserve Des Moines River SNA Felton Prairie SNA Bicentennial Unit Glynn Prairie SNA Great River Bluffs State Park Grey Cloud Dunes SNA Hastings Sand Coulee SNA Hastings SNA Helen Allison Savanna SNA Hole-in-the-Mountain Prairie Holthe Prairie SNA Hythecker Prairie SNA Iron Horse Prairie SNA Joseph A. Tauer Prairie SNA Kasota Prairie SNA Kellogg-Weaver Dunes SNA Kellogg-Weaver Unit King's and Queen's Bluff SNA Lake Bronson State Park Long Meadow Lake Lundblad Prairie SNA			Minneopa State Park Mound Spring Prairie SNA Nelson Wildlife Sanctuary Old Mill State Park Ordway Prairie OronocoPrairie SNA Osmundson Prairie SNA Ottawa Bluffs Preserve Ottertail Prairie SNA Pankratz Memorial Prairie North Unit Pembina Trail Preserve SNA Crookston Prairie Unit Plover Prairie East Unit Prairie Smoke Dunes SNA Racine Prairie SNA Red Rock Prairie Regal Meadow Rice Lake Savanna SNA Richard M. & Mathilde Rice Elliott Prairie SNA Rock Ridge Prairie SNA Roscoe Prairie SNA St. Croix Savanna SNA Schaefer Prairie Sedan Brook Prairie SNA Staffanson Prairie Strandness Prairie Uncas Dunes SNA Upper Sioux Agency State Park Wahpeton Prairie WMA Western Prairie SNA Yellow Bank Hills SNA Zimmerman Prairie

Comments	This is the state flower of North Dakota.

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Taxonomy	Family:	Rosaceae (rose)
	Subfamily:	Rosoideae
	Tribe:	Roseae
	Genus:	Rosa
	Subgenus:	Rosa
	Section:	Rosa

Subordinate Taxa	prairie rose (Rosa arkansana var. arkansana) prairie rose (Rosa arkansana var. suffulta)

Synonyms	Rosa alcea Rosa arkansana var. arkansana Rosa arkansana var. depressa Rosa arkansana var. suffulta Rosa arkansanoides Rosa blanda var. arkansana Rosa bushii Rosa conjuncta Rosa heliophila Rosa lunellii Rosa polyanthema Rosa pratincola Rosa ratonensis Rosa relicta Rosa rydbergii Rosa subglauca Rosa suffulta Rosa suffulta var. relicta Rosa virginiana var. arkansana

Common Names	Arkansas rose prairie rose prairie wildrose sunshine rose wild prairie rose wild rose wildrose