Thank you for the comments, Theo. It looks like a very vigorous, healthy
specimin but it is still early in the season. I never knew what it looked
like before. I thought I had something very unusual there :-).

Theo Asir wrote:

be rosa multiflora, which is an invasive species rose in much of the
eastern and central US. Here is a link to the HelpMeFind page on rosa

I disagree on the invasive term. Its got a bad
rap from farmers who can't look after
their fields properly. While it does have a million
seeds fairly regular haying usually dealls with that problem.

If you have other roses in your garden, this is not a rose you want to
have in your garden, as it is a carrier of a mite that might carry a
virus callede rose rosette, a rose disease that can kill your roses.

It doesn't actually carry the mite, just allows
it to spread as it forms the link between the wild
population and the cultivated population of roses.

Just to let you guys know Multiflora is starting to become
resistant to Rose Rosette. The first few resistant
strands have been found in South West Missouri.
This is very prelimnary but it seems fairly definite.

It is a very pretty rose, by the way, and has a sweet scent.

This I agree.

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Theo in Zone 5
Kansas City