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• Double great burnet-leaved (syn. R. carolina plena)
• Double Pennsylvanian
• Double Pensylvanian Rose
• Rosa carolina f. plena W.H.Lewis
• Rosa humilis f. plena syn.
• Rosa parviflora plena Tratt. syn.
• Rosa parviflora var. flore multiplici Red. & Thory Syn.
• Rosa pennsylvanica subtaxon plena Marshall synonym
• Rosa pennsylvanica var. flore plena Rehder syn
• R. pensylvanica plena
• Rosier de la Caroline
• "The Golly Rose"

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Medium pink Species.
Exhibition name: R. pensylvanica plena

Species / Wild.  

Pink to salmon-pink, darker center, ages to cream . [Pink.]  Warm pink fading to white.  Moderate, sweet fragrance.  Average diameter 1".  Double (17-25 petals), very double, in small clusters bloom form.  Spring or summer flush with scattered later bloom.  Glandular sepals, long sepals buds.  

Short, bristly , suckers on its own roots, well-branched.  Small foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 2' to 6' (60 to 185cm).  

USDA zone 5b and warmer.  Can be used for specimen.  Very hardy.  Blooms tend to ball in wet weather.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  

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The new combination of Rosa carolina var plena (Marshall) Doris Lynes was published in Baileya, Vol. 3 (1955) and republished in the American Rose Annual. See References and Comments.
IOPI: Rosa pennsylvanica var. florepleno hort. ex Andrews Roses 2: t.102. 1806