Carolina Rose Native Flowering Shrub | Rosa carolina | 2 Gallon Pot Pasture Rose with Rose Hips

Add native beauty and wildlife value to your landscape with Carolina Rose (Rosa carolina), a charming North American native shrub prized for its delicate pink flowers and colorful fall rose hips. Also known as Pasture Rose, this compact, suckering rose creates a beautiful naturalized display while supporting pollinators, birds, and other beneficial wildlife.

In late spring and summer, attractive pink blooms cover the shrub, attracting bees and butterflies to the garden. As the season progresses, the flowers give way to vibrant red rose hips that provide ornamental interest well into fall and winter while serving as an important food source for birds.

Its compact size makes Carolina Rose perfect for native plant gardens, pollinator habitats, meadow plantings, woodland edges, rain gardens, and informal borders. Hardy and adaptable, it offers excellent disease resistance and dependable performance in a variety of landscape settings.

These healthy plants are shipped established in 2 gallon nursery pots and are ready to thrive in your garden.

Growing Information
Common Name: Carolina Rose / Pasture Rose
Botanical Name: Rosa carolina
Plant Type: Deciduous native flowering shrub
Growth Stage: Established potted plant
Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
Soil: Well-drained soil; adaptable to a variety of conditions
Watering: Moderate; drought tolerant once established
Flower Color: Pink
Bloom Time: Late spring to summer
Fruit: Bright red rose hips in fall
Mature Height: Approximately 2 feet
Mature Width: Approximately 2–3 feet
Growth Habit: Compact, suckering shrub
USDA Zones: 4–9
Pollinator Friendly: Yes
Wildlife Value: Excellent

Care Tip: Plant in full sun for the best flowering, healthiest foliage, and most abundant rose hip production. Allow room for natural spreading if using in wildlife or naturalized plantings.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.