- Small Yellow Rose

Small Yellow Rose is a sensely branched shrub up to 1.5-2 m, easy to recognize by dense, low habit, straight, broad-based, reddish-brown prickles, small, yellow flowers and hairless styles. Flowers are solitary, without bracts, 2-4 cm in diameter, yellow. Sepals are entire, spreading or deflexed in fruit, persistent. Styles are rather few, not forming compact head, usually hairless below the stigma. Flower-stalks are variable in length, usually smooth and hairless. Young sterile stems are yellowish-brown, flexuose, hairless or rarely velvet-hairy. Prickles are straight, strongly laterally compressed, with broad decurrent base, usually densely set on the stems, chestnut-red when young, acicles or bristles normally lacking. Flowering branches are very short, up to 5-10 mm. Leaflets are 7-9, up to 5-8 mm long, variable in shape, obovate, inverted-lanceshaped or broadly elliptic, somewhat pointed to flat at tip, hairless or velvet-hairy beneath, glandular on both sides or smooth, rounded toothed-sawtoothed. Stipules are narrow, with diverging ears. Fruit is 5-7 mm in diameter, almost spherical, brownish when mature. Small Yellow Rose is found in Afghanistan to Central Asia and W. Himalaya. Flowering: May-August.