Wood's Rose

Flowers are up to 2 inches (5 cm) wide and have 5 pink petals, 5 narrowly triangular, light green sepals, and yellow stamens. The flowers are followed by rounded, non-spiny, red fruits known as rose hips. The leaves are alternate and pinnately divided into 5 to 9 green, oval to elliptical leaflets that are toothed near their tip. The stems have distinctive straight thorns and are branched and red-brown to gray in color. The plants are shrubby and thicket-forming.