Website/Catalog  (22 Oct 2023)  Includes photo(s).
 
Repeating Swamp Rose  Unknown. 4 to 5 feet   Z5-11 R Fr mp. Repeat blooms in the fall as well as the spring, a characteristic that is unusual for this wild rose.  This mounding shrub is very large and graceful.  It is also shade tolerant and will grow in wet areas unlike any other rose that exists.  Thornless.

Website/Catalog  (2018)  
 
Rosa palustris Marshall, Arbust. Amer. 135. 1785.
Swamp rose, rosier palustre
Rosa floridana Rydberg; R. gemella Willdenow; R. lancifolia Small; R. obtusiuscula Rydberg; R. palustris var. dasistema (Rafinesque) E. J. Palmer & Steyermark
Shrubs, forming thickets. Stems erect, 10–25(–30) dm, sparsely branched; bark reddish brown, glabrous; infrastipular prickles paired, curved, rarely erect, stout, 3.5–8 × 2–5(–10) mm, ˂base glabrous˃, internodal prickles and aciculi rare, sometimes absent. Leaves 8–11 cm; stipules ˂narrow˃, 10–22(–35) × 2.5–4 mm, auricles erect, rarely flared, 2.5–4.5(–8) mm, margins serrulate, eglandular or stipitate-glandular, surfaces glabrous, eglandular; petiole and rachis usually with pricklets, puberulent to pubescent, sometimes glabrous, eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular; leaflets 5–7, terminal: petiolule 5–10 mm, blade ovate-lanceolate, rarely broadly lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 23–45 × 10–18 mm, membranous, base cuneate, margins 1–2-serrulate, ˂eglandular˃, teeth 20–30 per side, acute to ± obtuse, eglandular, apex acute to subacute, abaxial surfaces pale green, glabrous or pubescent, eglandular, adaxial green, dull, glabrous. Inflorescences corymbs, (1 or)2–10(–40)-flowered. Pedicels erect, slender, 6–15 mm, glabrous, densely stipitate-glandular; bracts 2, lanceolate, 6–15 × 3–4 mm, ˂margins and central veins pubescent˃, eglandular, surfaces pubescent, eglandular. Flowers 2.5–5 cm diam.; hypanthium cupulate, 2–4 × 2–4 mm, glabrous, sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular, neck absent or 1–3 mm; sepals spreading to reflexed, rarely erect, lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 15–30(–40) × 2–3.5 mm, tip 2.5–3.5 × 0.5–1 mm, margins entire, rarely pinnate, abaxial surfaces glabrous, densely, sometimes sparsely, stipitate-glandular; petals single, pink to deep pink, 14–28 × 13–28 mm; ˂stamens 200˃; carpels 24–50, styles exsert 0.5–1 m beyond stylar orifice (1.5 mm diam.) of hypanthial disc (3.5–4.5 mm diam.). Hips deep red, usually globose to subglobose, rarely elongate, 7–11 × 7–11 mm, fleshy, glabrous, sparsely or densely stipitate-glandular, neck absent or 3 × 1 mm; sepals deciduous, spreading. Achenes basal, 26, tan, 3 × 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 14.
Flowering (Jun–)Jul(–Aug). Swampy woods and pastures, marshes, edges of ponds, springs, lakes, backwaters, sloughs, streams, ditches; 0–700 m; N.B., N.S., Ont., Que.; Ala., Ark., Conn., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Miss., Mo., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Pa., R.I., S.C., Tenn., Vt., Va., W.Va., Wis.; introduced in Europe.
The single 1952 collection of Rosa palustris from Lake of Three Fires State Park (ISC), Taylor County, southwestern Iowa, is about 430 km northwest of the nearest known collection of the species, in Missouri. The species was probably introduced. It has the most serrulate leaflet margins of all roses in North America; the stems usually have short, stout, curved infrastipular prickles, rarely without armature.
Rosa ×palustriformis (Rydberg) Voss (R. carolina var. aculeata Schuette, R. michiganensis Erlanson, R. schuetteana Erlanson) refers to putative hybrids between R. blanda × R. palustris from Maine, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Rosa schuetteana is morphologically intermediate between the parental species; R. ×palustriformis is more similar to R. palustris. Rosa blanda and R. palustris differ by: branch armature (R. blanda unarmed or with sparse prickles or aciculi, R. palustris with stout, curved infrastipular prickles or unarmed); length of each auricle (R. blanda average 4.8 mm, R. palustris average 2.6 mm); petioles and rachises with pricklets (R. blanda rare, R. palustris common); leaflet serrations (R. blanda serrate, acute, teeth 10–26 per blade side, R. palustris serrulate, slightly blunt, teeth 20–30 per blade side); pedicels stipitate-glandular (R. blanda eglandular, R. palustris almost always); hypanthia stipitate-glandular (R. blanda eglandular, R. palustris almost always); inflorescences corymbs (R. blanda rare, R. palustris common).
Root decoctions of Rosa palustris were drunk by Cherokee to treat diarrhea (W. H. Lewis and M. P. F. Elvin-Lewis 2003). In Maine, R. palustris hips, including their achenes, are gathered about February, flattened, dried, and ground into flour for use with ground wheat to make leavened bread. The bread has a red color and a fine taste reminiscent of tomatoes (Arthur Haines, pers. comm.).

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

Book  (2002)  
 
Rosa palustris. Swamp Rose.
Zones: 4-9; sun
Soil: Moist to wet
Native to: Swamps, bog margins, freshwater marshes, and damp shores; Nova Scotia to Minnesota south to Arkansas and florida
Size: Height 3-5 feet, width 3-6 feet
Color: Rose pink; blooms in summer
In the wild, swamp rose is intermixed with wetland grasses and sedges as well as other shrubs, but if you give it a bit of room and damp soil, it becomes dense rounded shrub bearing clusters of flowers over stiff little leaves composed of 3 to 5 leaflets. It sets quantities of small, round, red-orange fruits late in summer that, while not as large as some other rose hips, have a good visual effect, and their size may make them easier for some birds to handle. R. palustris has only pairs of thick, back-curving infrastipular and petiolar thorns.

Article (magazine)  (2001)  Page(s) 393.  
 
R. palustris Marsh. Ploidy 2x
Pollen fertility 64.3%
Selfed Fruit set 0%

Book  (Feb 1999)  Page(s) 11.  
 
R. palustris... tolerates wetter soil than most roses...

Book  (Nov 1998)  Page(s) 14.  Includes photo(s).
 
R. palustris Called the Swamp Rose because it actually prefers moist bog to well-drained soil.

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 11.  
 
R. palustris 'The Swamp Rose'... will thrive even in a bog. Height: 4 ft. Flowers: single, dark pink. Repeats. Hips: oval...

Book  (Aug 1990)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Philadelphia nurseryman, William Young, listed it under other names in his 1783 catalogue of plants for export to France.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 11.  
 
'The Swamp Rose', tolerates wet ground