Summary ²

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.

Laguna Environmental Center Landscape Number ³

33

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1. (c) Terrie Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/71584508@N00/3634883920
2. Adapted by m7maya from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_californica
3. (c) m7maya, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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