The Small-flowered Sweet-briar Rosa micrantha is one of the Section Caninae (‘the dog-roses’). And this occurs in the same or similar open habitats as the Dog Rose, along woodland edges and hedgerow & scrub.
Rosa micrantha differs from the regular R. canina in that its leaflets have numerous apple scented glands and usually also slightly hairy; sepals are glandular, also with numerous apple scented glands, and pinnate, reflexed and deciduous in ripe fruit. Also, the pedicels are up to 1.5 cm with numerous apple scented glandular hairs.
Rosa micrantha is not a FRM controlled species, and is not in the Forestry Commission’s list, therefore can only be certified under the voluntary FRM scheme as R. canina sensu latu.
