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Small-flowered Sweet-briar

Rosa micrantha

The Small-flowered Sweet-briar is a lovely shrub with tiny pink flowers and sweet-smelling leaves. It grows in sunny places and is a favorite for butterflies and bees!

Lebensraum: Grasslands

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The Small-flowered Sweet-briar is a thorny shrub with arching stems and small, delicate pale pink or white flowers. Its leaves have a unique apple-like scent when crushed, distinguishing it from other wild roses with more intense colors or different foliage. It often has distinct, reddish hooked thorns.

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Small-flowered Sweet-briar
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Small-flowered Sweet-briar

Kategorie

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

2/5 · Gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Even its tiny seeds can stay alive for many years before sprouting!

Its rose hips are some of the most vitamin-rich fruits on Earth!

The plant's apple-scented leaves are sometimes used to make fragrant potpourri!

This sweet-briar can live for many decades in the wild, growing very old!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Scented Shield

Small-flowered Sweet-briar has fragrant leaves that help it deter hungry herbivores from munching on its foliage.

Fähigkeit

Climbing Hooks

Small-flowered Sweet-briar has strong hooked thorns that help it climb and scramble over other plants for sunlight.

Fähigkeit

Vitamin C Boost

Small-flowered Sweet-briar has bright red rose hips packed with Vitamin C that help feed birds and small mammals.

Maße und Details

Höhe
100-300 cm
Ausbreitung
100-200 cm
Blütengröße
2-3 cm
Blütezeit
Sommer
Essbar
Ja
Giftigkeit
Leicht
Lebenszyklus
Mehrjährig
Bestäubungsmethode
Insekten

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

pollinates

Honey bee

Apis mellifera

Feeds on nectar and collects pollen from flowers.

eaten by

Blackbird

Turdus merula

Eats the plant's nutrient-rich rose hips in autumn.

parasitizes

Rose aphid

Macrosiphum rosae

Sucks sap from the plant's young shoots and leaves.

shelters

Blackcap

Sylvia atricapilla

Nests and hides within its dense, thorny branches.

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

2/5 · Gering

Be careful around thorny plants and always ask an adult before touching.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das höhe von Small-flowered Sweet-briar?

100-300 cm

Was ist der/die/das ausbreitung von Small-flowered Sweet-briar?

100-200 cm

Was ist der/die/das blütengröße von Small-flowered Sweet-briar?

2-3 cm

Was ist der/die/das blütezeit von Small-flowered Sweet-briar?

Sommer

Was ist der/die/das essbar von Small-flowered Sweet-briar?

Ja

Was ist der/die/das giftigkeit von Small-flowered Sweet-briar?

Leicht

Was ist der/die/das lebenszyklus von Small-flowered Sweet-briar?

Mehrjährig

Was ist der/die/das bestäubungsmethode von Small-flowered Sweet-briar?

Insekten

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