Article (misc)  (3 Mar 2008)  
 
Walter Schowalter notes:
Maypole - May be a natural hybrid. Three to four feet tall, woodsii type leaves, suffulta cluster type of blooming. Large light pink flowers; 5 to 15 petals, produced all summer on new and old wood. Long stems for wildling. Will set some seed to floribunda pollen.

Article (misc)  (1960)  
 
Walter Schowalter notes - ca 1960:
Maypole - R. arkansana or hybrid. Found by W. Schowalter on SE1/4 -18-38-1-W4. Height in wild not over 45 cm., under cultivation to 75 cm. Prickles on primary stems, few on laterals. Leaflets 9, deeply troughed. Leaf 9.0 cm, leaflets 3.8 x 1.2 to 1.5 elliptic. Flowers light pink, flat, petals to 15 produced on new wood and secondary, beginning at the end of June and continuing through the summer. Flowers in a corymb. No fruit available for measurement. Found on outside edge of poplar bluff.