Taxon: Rosa gallica L.

Common names:

• apothecary rose   (Source: Krussmann ) – English
  
• French rose   (Source: Krussmann ) – English
  
• Hungarian rose   (Source: Krussmann ) – English
  
• officinal rose   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• red rose   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• red-rose-of-Lancaster   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• rosier de France   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – French
  
• rosier de provins   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – French
  
• Essig-Rose   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• provinsros   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3; Krussmann; Eur Gard F; Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (source of attar of roses used in perfumery, exported from Egypt fide Flower Oils)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Libya
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Moldova; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Macedonia; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France

• widely cultivated

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with two varieties].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 19:158. [mentions].
• Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery. [= R. gallica Lam.].
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. [mentions].
• Saakov, S. G. & D. Rieksta. 1973. Rozy. 52.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Rosa gallica.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Rosa gallica var. conditorum Dieck
  
• (=) Rosa gallica var. officinalis Thory
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Rosa gallica var. versicolor L.
  
• (=) Rosa provincialis Mill.
  

Check other web resources for Rosa gallica L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Rosa gallica cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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