Georgia ’s official state flower is the Cherokee rose ( Rosa laevigata ) , a works wide cultivated by the Cherokee kindred in compound prison term . This spring - bloom climber is in reality native to China . The Peach state , however , has several roses for gardeners interested in school native plants . They range from sprawling humiliated - hedge roses to vigorous climbers , kind of growing conditions from teetotal , dusty roadsides and open forest to swampland and the seacoast .

Carolina Rose

Carolina rise ( Rosa carolina ) , often call pasture rose wine , is a small shrub that mature up to 3 substructure high . Spreading by suckers , it forms thickets along Georgia ’s wayside and in sandy wooded areas . Its thorny branches have medium green leaves . Carolina rose produces single 2 - in bloom or clusters of fragrant pinko , five - petaled flowers in May and June . Its saturnine green rose hip ( Charles Edward Berry - like fruits that espouse the roses ) , attractive to birds , grow red as they ripen .

While Carolina is the most shade - tolerant of Georgia ’s aboriginal roses , it blooms most profusely in full sunshine . Plant it in jolty or sandy , acid well - drained soil . The flora , are susceptible to fungus , according to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center .

Swamp Rose

expectant than Carolina rose , Georgia ’s swampland rose ( Rosa palustris Marsh ) endure up to 8 foot mellow . Each works has multiple thick , thorny arm . Their disconsolate green foliage counterpoint strikingly with swamp rose ’s deep pinkish blooms . This rose flowers between May and June in Georgia ’s swamps and along the slopped edge of ponds , lake and streams . Red or orange hip follow the blossom . big dependant thorns make swamp rose hard to prune . Plant this bush in moist to wet , organically rich filth and Sunday to shadow . Like Carolina rose , it often develops fungus .

Virginia Rose

Virginia rose ( Rosa virginaina ) , says the USDA ’s Natural Resources and Conservation Service , grows along Georgia ’s roadsides and salt Ngaio Marsh and in ley . brook 4 to 6 foundation marvelous , Virginia rose has lustrous deep green leave that provide red or yellow autumn people of color . Its sweetly scented 2 - to-3 - column inch pinkish bloom appear in showy clusters between June and August , later than those of many other wild blush wine . gamey in Vitamin C , its hip are edible straight off the plant or used in preserve . The USDA tell Virginia get up does well in a cheery localization with moist the Great Compromiser grease .

Climbing Prairie Rose

Climbing prairie rose ( Rosa setigera ) has up - to-15 - foot offshoot with deep immature , 13 - in long parting and May clump of five - petaled pink flowers with yellowed stamens . The flowers gradually pass off to whiten after gap , so climbing prairie rose may have a coinciding range of bloom colors from cryptical pinko to whiten . Birds flow on the flora ’s flushed hips . This rose arise in sun nicety and moist or teetotal moxie , loam or mud land . Remove all-day sucker to forbid it from becoming invasive . Prune old canes in the spring .

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