Book  (2001)  Page(s) 379.  
 
Plant Introductions in the period 1800-1899
1808 Rosa acicularis Arctic Rose. Canada, N. USA. N.E. Asia. reintroduced.

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 233.  
 
Plant Introductions in the period 1600-1699
1618 Rosa acicularis (Rosa moscovita) Finland through Siberia to N. Alaska and Japan. Reintroduced. 

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 208-209.  
 
John Tradescant ...took the opportunity to botanise whenever the chance arose, and it seems that the expedition must have spent some time within the Arctic Circle, around the town of Archangel in northern Russia, because he brought back several plants which thrived there. One or two of them were natives of Britain that he just could not resist gathering, but the majority were new. He collected Rosa moscovita - or, as Parkinson called it, 'Rosa sylvestris Russica, the wild bryer of Muscovia'. Under ts modern name, Rosa acicularis, the Arctic Rose is found growing in all the northern parts of Asia, America and europe. However, it stayed only briefly in Britain until apparently being reintroduced in 1808. The plant, with its sharply poited leaves (the epithet acicularis), is now seen rarely in cultivation.

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 191.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa acicularis Lindley
Shrub 30-120 cm tall. Stems generally densely armed with straight slender prickles and bristles. The infrastipular prickles are indistiguishable from the rest. Flowers usually solitary, occasionally twos or threes, 4-5 cm across. Fruit ovoid or pear-shaped, with a pronounced neck, up to 2 cm long by 1 cm wide, crowned by the erect sepals. Illustration.
Range: circumboreal and southward along the Rocky Mountains to Colorado and New Mexico. Widespread and common across Britich Columbia east of the Coast Range.

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 18.  
 
('Arctic Rose', 'Circumpolar Rose') Unique among Wild Roses in occurring right around the northern hemisphere, in the far north of Europe, Asia and North America. No other species hops the continents like this. Acicularis means 'needled', describes the thin, sharp spines, which cover the stems. Pink flowers. Once-blooming, hardy, Fragrant.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 27.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 133.  
 
location 147/1, 216a; R. acicularis Lindl. var fennica Lallemant, (R. acicularis Lindl. gmeliniii (Bunge) C.K. Schneider = R. gmelinii Bunge = R. baicalensis Turcz.), CINNAMOMEAE, Finland-Siberia, deep pink, single, fragrant, medium size, cluster-flowered, early-blooming, upright, branched, 1-2 m, many bristles + prickles, light green medium size matte foliage, 5-7 leaflets, orange-red medium size matte-glossy pear-shaped to oval fruit, upright sepals, ripe early, fall off complete

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 133.  
 
location 150/1, R. acicularis Lindl. (R. carelica Fries), CINNAMOMEAE, provenance: Ottawa, pink, single, fragrant, medium size, solitary or cluster-flowered, bushy, upright, well-branched, 1.5 m, many bristles, light green medium size matte foliage, 7 leaflets, orange-red small-medium matte-glossy bottle-shaped fruit, upright persistent sepals, ripe early

Book  (1984)  Page(s) 99.  
 
Rosa acicularis/Rosa acicularis Lindl./Rosa carelica Fries/Rosa sayi Schweinitz = Section des Cinnamomeae – Rosa acicularis. Amérique du Nord, Europe du Nord, Nord-est de l’Asie – introduit en 1905. Hauteur 1m. Feuilles: 3 à 7 folioles elliptiques à oblongues, 2 à 5cm de long, bords à dents simples. Fleurs: 4 à 5cm de diamètre, isolées. Fruits: 1,50cm de long. Une curiosité géographique! Cette espèce, en effet, est la seule qui dépasse le cercle polaire, une des rares aussi qui vive à la fois dans l’Ancien et le Nouveau Monde: en somme, elle suit le cercle polaire, en se tenant à cheval dessus, et c’est en Asie qu’elle descend le plus vers le sud, atteignant le nord du Japon. Description...

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 151.  
 
Otakanebara or Otaaneibara is R. acicularis Lindley. It resembles Takanebara, abundant in Hokkaido and some varieties are found abroad.