




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!
Habitat: Grasslands
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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Common
Danger
2/5 · Low
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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!
Small-flowered Sweet-briar has fragrant leaves that help it deter hungry herbivores from munching on its foliage.
Small-flowered Sweet-briar has strong hooked thorns that help it climb and scramble over other plants for sunlight.
Small-flowered Sweet-briar has bright red rose hips packed with Vitamin C that help feed birds and small mammals.
Apis mellifera
Feeds on nectar and collects pollen from flowers.
Turdus merula
Eats the plant's nutrient-rich rose hips in autumn.
Macrosiphum rosae
Sucks sap from the plant's young shoots and leaves.

Sylvia atricapilla
Nests and hides within its dense, thorny branches.
Aromatic plants produce and emit fragrant volatile organic compounds, often for defense or to attract pollinators.
Deciduous plants periodically shed all their leaves, typically during autumn or dry seasons.
Flowering plants are any plants that produce flowers as part of their reproductive cycle.
A shrub is a woody plant smaller than a tree, typically with multiple stems branching from or near the ground.
Summer blooming plants produce their flowers during the summer season, often providing vibrant color when many other plants have finished.
Fragrant flowers emit a pleasant aroma, often to attract pollinators or for defense.
Edible plants are those parts of a plant that are considered safe for human consumption.
Grassland habitats are terrestrial biomes dominated by grasses and herbaceous plants, supporting a variety of grazing animals.
Describes plants that are particularly attractive and beneficial to a wide range of pollinating organisms.
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Danger
2/5 · Low
Be careful around thorny plants and always ask an adult before touching.
100-300 cm
100-200 cm
2-3 cm
Summer
Yes
Mild
Perennial
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