Name: Rosa multiflora	Description: Family: Perennial shrub Growth Form:    Stems: Up to 3 meters long in clumps, arching or trailing, usually growing about 2 meters erect and then the tips drooping almost to the ground, beset with stiff thorns Leaves: Pinnately compound usually with 7 or 9 leaflets, membranaceous, deciduous, 2-4 centimeters long, elliptic or obovate, obtruse to acute, nearly gladrous on the upper surface, paler and usually with short soft, pubescence beneath. Flower Arrangement:   Flowers:  Begin to show from June to July. Petals: Stamens:  . Pistil:  Fruits: Bright red, about 0.8 centimeters in diameter, nearly round.	Discussion: A multiflora rose's inflorescence is a many-flowered panicle, usually pyramidal, erect, and 2-4 centimeters broad. It's color is mostly white, but may have a pinkish tint sometimes. The pedicels often are white with stalked glands. The rose's sepals are 5-8 millimeters long with glabrous styles.
Image:	Location: Habitat: Clearings, roadsides, fence rows, waysides, boarders of woods, "bumper areas" along super-highways, and curves. Range: Introduced and naturalized from eastern Asia. Found throughout most of the United States except the Rocky Mountain area, the southeastern Coastal Plains, and the Nevada and California desert areas; south into Mexico.	Waypoint:  N 38 degrees 34.755 minutes W 89 degrees 04.146 minutes Elevation 475 feet

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