California wild rose (Plants of the Foothill College California Native Plant Garden)

California wild rose

Rosa californica

Family ²

Rosaceae

Description ³

Rosa californica, the California wild rose, is a species of rose native to the U.S. states of California and Oregon and the northern part of Baja California, Mexico. The plant is native to chaparral and woodlands and the Sierra Nevada foothills, and can survive drought, though it grows most abundantly in moist soils near water sources.

Community ²

Yellow Pine Forest, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral, Valley Grassland, (many plant communities), wetland-riparian

Flowering ²

May- Aug

Ethnobotany ²

• Cahuilla Drug (Analgesic, Pediatric Aid, Food)
Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel 1972 Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press (p. 133)
• Costanoan Drug (Antirheumatic (Internal), Cold Remedy, Dermatological Aid, Febrifuge, Gastrointestinal Aid, Febrifuge, Throat Aid).
Bocek, Barbara R. 1984 Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington. Economic Botany 38(2):240-255 (p. 18)
• Diegueno Drug (Febrifuge, Pediatric Aid)
Hedges, Ken 1986 Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany. San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20 (p. 39)
• Mahuna Drug (Analgesic, Febrifuge, Gastrointestinal Aid)
Romero, John Bruno 1954 The Botanical Lore of the California Indians. New York. Vantage Press, Inc. (p. 8)
• Miwok Drug (Gastrointestinal Aid, Analgesic)
Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford 1933 Miwok Material Culture. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11 (p. 172)
• Gosiute Food (Fruit)
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1911 The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405. (p. 379)
• Kawaiisu Food (Fruit)
Zigmond, Maurice L. 1981 Kawaiisu Ethnobotany. Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press (p. 60)
• Pomo, Kashaya Food (Fruit)
Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson 1980 Kashaya Pomo Plants. Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles (p. 99)
• Kawaiisu Fiber (Basketry)
Zigmond, Maurice L. 1981 Kawaiisu Ethnobotany. Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press (p. 60)

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Associated Species ²

native bees (pollen / nectar) XERCES + nesting material
bumble bees (pollen / nectar) XERCES

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Adapted by gillian360 from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_californica

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