Alberta Wild Rose (Prickly Rose) vs Gray Dogwood - TreeTime.ca

Alberta Wild Rose (Prickly Rose) vs Gray Dogwood

Rosa acicularis

Cornus racemosa

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Alberta Wild Rose (Prickly Rose)
Gray Dogwood

Alberta's provincial flower, Alberta Wild Rose, is a small, deciduous shrub known for its beautiful pink blooms and thick, thorny stems.

Native to Canada, this hardy perennial is an attractive addition to any garden. Wildlife enjoy its edible rosehips, which inclined growers can use in jams, jellies, and rose hip tea.

Gray dogwood is a thicket-forming, deciduous shrub with greenish-white blossoms in open, terminal clusters. Young twigs are red and the fruit pedicels remain conspicuously red into late fall and early winter.

Fruit itself is a white, 1/4 in. drupe that usually does not remain on the shrub for long.

Great for naturalizing wild areas, this shrub attracts birds and other wildlife.

Alberta Wild Rose (Prickly Rose) Quick Facts

Gray Dogwood Quick Facts

Zone: 1a
Zone: 4a
Height: 2.1 m (7 ft)
Height: 3 m (10 ft)
Spread: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 3 m (10 ft)
Light: any
Light: any
Moisture: normal
Moisture: any
Growth rate: medium
Growth rate: slow
Life span: medium
Life span: medium
Suckering: medium
Suckering: medium


Fall colour: bright red
Fall colour: deep, reddish puple
Flowers: pink,blooms between May and June. Flowers are both male and female
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS, NB, YT, NT, NU
Native to: MB, ON, QC
Other Names: arctic rose, bristly rose, prickly wild rose