Book  (1984)  Page(s) 99.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa arkansana / Rosa arkansana T.C. Porter / syn Rosa Rydbergii Greene = Section des Cinnamomeae. USA: centre et ouest – introduit en 1715. Hauteur 50cm. Feuilles: 9 ou 11 folioles, 2,5 à 5cm de longueur, bords à dents aiguës. Fleurs: 3cm de diamètre. Inflorescences: corymbes paniculés. Fruits: 1,5cm d’épaisseur. C’est une véritable curiosité végétale…

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 272.  Includes photo(s).
 
R. arkansana Porter. Similar to R. acicularis, but lower and flowering period longer. About 0.5 m./1.7 ft. high. stems prickly and bristly; leaflets 9-11, elliptic, 2.5-5 cm./1-2 in. long, sharply serrate, glossy above, blad on both sides or puberulent on the veins beneath, stipules glandular-dentate; flowers in cormbs, bright red, 3 cm./1.2 in. across, June-July; sepals reflexed, bald or glandular beneath, outer ones often pinnate, pedicels bald, fruit globose, 1.5 cm./0.6 in. across, red. 2n = 28, 14. HPN 3:168; VP 434; BB 1968 (= R. rydbergii Greene). Central and Western U.S.A. 1917.
In its native home often low and suffruticose; hybrids of this species could possibly produce a new type of rose, similar to perennilas, which could be pruned to the ground and then regenerate each year.

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 110.  
 
R. arkansana Porter et I. M. Coult
- Coult. Fl. Colorado (1874), 38
(R. rydbergii Greene)
Büsche: bis 50 cm hoch; Triebe mit Dornen und Borsten.
Blätter: 9 bis 11 Blättchen; Blättchen elliptisch, 2,5 bis 5 cm lang, an den Rändern scharf gesägt, Oberseite glänzend, auf beiden Seiten kahl, oder Unterseite entlang den Adern filzig; Nebenblättchen drüsig-gesägt.
Blüten: 3 cm im Durchmesser, hellrot; Kelchblätter zurückgebogen, kahl oder Unterseite drüsig, häufig auch gefiedert, Stiel kahl.
Früchte: rundlich, 1,5 cm im Drurchmesser, rot.
Similar to R. acicularis, often confused as R. suffulta.
Area of distribution: North America (Middle and Western states).

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 439.  
 
R. arkansana Porter. Shrub to o.5 m.; stems very prickly and bristly; lfts. 9-11, elliptic, 2-6 cm. long, acute, coarsely and sharply serrate, glabrous and lustrous above, glabrous and sparingly pilose on the veins beneath; stipules dilated, glandular-dentate; fls. corymbose, pink, about 4 cm. across; pedicels glabrous; fr. subglobose, 1-1.15 cm. across. FL. VI-VII. Wisc. and Minn. to Kans. and Colo. Cult. 1917. Zone IV:

Book  (1919)  Page(s) 419.  
 
R. ARKANSANA, Porter. ARKANSAS ROSE.
(R. blanda var. arkansana. Best.)
A small bush, under 3 ft. high, whose steins are densely covered with fine straight prickles. Leaflets five to eleven, oval or obovate, tapering at the base, ½  to 1 in. long, simply and sharply toothed, smooth or very slightly downy. Flowers in clusters or solitary, 1½ ins. wide, pink ; sepals smooth or slightly downy, with long narrow points. Fruit ½ in. in diameter, smooth, globose, red, crowned with the spreading sepals.
Native of the central United States. It has been placed as a variety of R. blanda, but its weaker habit, its densely prickly stems, and spreading (not erect) sepals on the fruit distinguish it.
 

Article (magazine)  (1897)  Page(s) 153.  
 
R. arkansana Port.

a. Feuille. — Poils simples communs sur les deux épidermes ou seulement sur l'inférieur, ou encore nuls sur le limbe et seulement sur le rachis médian. Poils glandulifères nuls. Épiderme supérieur ecticurviligne, d'une épaisseur de 26-31 μ, à cellules grandes, rarement moyennes. Épiderme inférieur d'une épaisseur de 16-21 μ, à cellules grandes, rarement moyennes. Stomates d'une longueur de 30-31 μ, plus grands ou plus petits que les cellules environnantes. Mésophylle d'une épaisseur de 83-126 μ, bi facial, composé de 5-7 assises de cellules, les 2-4 supérieures transformées en palissades remplissant 1/2-2/3 de l'épaisseur totale. Parenchyme spongieux lacuneux à cellules plus grandes que dans les espèces précédentes de la section. Faisceaux libéro-ligneux des nervures et du pétiolule ordinairement pourvus de fibres péridesmiques bien développées; celles-ci pouvant être nulles ou à parois minces. Pétiole renfermant à sa base 3-5 faisceaux disposés en arc.

b. Tige. — Périderme peu ou pas développé dans les rameaux de deux ans. Cuticule très épaisse. Parenchyme cortical composé de 14-20 assises de cellules très allongées tangentiellement ou plus courtes, épaisses et ovales dans sa moitié interne. Moelle à cellules grandes, rarement moyennes ou petites.

c. Pédoncule floral. — Moelle à cellules grandes ou moyennes.

Book  (1891)  
 
R. arkansana Porter Very prickly, but without infrastipular spines; stipules narrow; leaflets 7 to 11, simple toothed, not resinous; flowers corymbose, the pedicels as well as the receptacles naked; sepals not hispid, the outer lobed: fruit globose.

Magazine  (1890)  Page(s) 145.  
 
Rosa blanda Ait. var. arkansana (Porter). Although frequently observed before, it was first described by Dr. Porter as Rosa Arkansana from specimens collected on the banks of the Arkansas River by Mr. Brandagee. The original specimen, in flower, is in the herbarium of Lafayette College.

Book  (1889)  Page(s) 36.  
 
The Weeds of Nebraska...Wild Roses (Rosa arkansana, R. blanda and R. woodsii). The first is common in the eastern counties, the second and third in the western.They are pretty, but are quite troublesome to the farmers, both on account of the difficulty of plowing up the large roots in breaking the raw prairie, and also in grain fields where the prickly stems are a nuisance to the workmen.

Magazine  (1888)  Page(s) 301.  
 
There is an abundance of wild roses of different hues, all of which belong to the same species, Rosa Arkansana.