7.  Rosa gallica L. E

French rose. CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT. Fields, roadsides, abandoned homesteads. Rosa gallica is sometimes described as having solitary flowers borne on ebracteate peduncles (e.g., Gleason and Cronquist 1991). However, this is only sometimes true. Two morphologies of this species appear to occur on the New England landscape. One has 1- or 2-flowered inflorescences with ebracteate pedicels that bear abundant stipitate-glands and have abundant prickles of various sizes on the branchlets. The other morphology has 2- to 4-flowered inflorescences with bracteate pedicels that bear fewer stipitate-glands and have fewer prickles on the branchlets.