Website/Catalog  (2018)  
 
Rosa nitida Willdenow, Enum. Pl. 544. 1809.
Red-spined or shining rose, rosier brillant
Description...
Rosa nitida is typical of the eastern Canadian Provincial Element (S. P. McLaughlin 2007) and is often found near or intermixed with R. virginiana. Putative hybrids between R. nitida (2x) and both R. palustris (2x) and R. virginiana (4x) are reported from Nova Scotia and New England. Because the armature of both R. palustris and R. virginiana is predominately or exclusively of infrastipular prickles, hybridity might explain the infrequent occurrences of R. nitida with infrastipular prickles. In a sample of 23 sheets of R. nitida having abundant prickles, two possess infrastipular prickles.

Article (misc)  (2005)  Page(s) 110, Table 5.1.  
 
R. nititda : diploid

Book  (2002)  
 
...shining rose or New England rose (R. nitida)....lights up marsh and river shores through eastern Canada and New England with big pink flowers held over shiny, fine-textured foliage arrayed on bristly stems.

Newsletter  (2001)  Page(s) 10. Vol 22, No. 3.  
 
Daphne Whitfort-Smith.  Species Rose Rosa nitida A favourite.
One of the loveliest roses I've grown is R nitida - in my garden about 1 m high, forming a strong thicket of reddish stems.  The leaves, like many North American plants, have the most outstanding autumn colours (worth growing for these alone). The flowers are single, deep pink, and have the most amazing scent - virtually Lily-of-the-Valley!  Flowering is quite long - almost two months, and the hips are small and scarlet. Bugs and diseases don't go near it. Definitely worth a place in the border, near the front, so you can get your nose into it.
 

Website/Catalog  (1999)  
 
R. nitida Willd. : diploid

Book  (Nov 1998)  Page(s) 11.  
 
R. nitida Foliage turns red in fall. Flowers: pink, single, small. Hips: tiny, oval, and covered with bristles. Widely distributed over Canada and the United States.

Book  (May 1998)  Page(s) 82-83.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa redutea rubescens ('Redoute's Rose with Red Stems and Prickles') Description... petals 5, cordately notched, pink, yellowish towards the base... It came from Du Pont's collection but was apparently lost by the time this was handed over to the government. We grow it in our gardens at Fleury and Belleville, but have not encountered it in any nursery...

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 23.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa nitida Wild shrub rose... perhaps an improved form of the wild rose... It tolerates dampish soil and is often planted in association with ornamental ponds... Its native habitat is in eastern North America and it has been known to cultivation since 1807...

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 35.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 162.  
 
location 81a, 150/3, R. nitida Wild., CAROLINAE, eastern North America, 1807, pink, single, mild fragrance, small-medium, cluster-flowered, late-blooming, bushy, upright, 0.6-1.5 m, branched, runners, many prickles, dark green medium size glossy narrow foliage, 7-11 leaflets, scarlet-red medium size rounded glandular fruit, sepals fall off singly