Brier

Brier Health Benefits
The brier is a thorny shrub that reaches 2-3 meters, with branches arching out. It appears as a variation of the wild rose. It is a medicinal plant known since ancient times, used as a remedy against rabies.

Brier
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or briar, name sometimes given any thorny plant, more specifically the sweetbrier, and the greenbrier.

Bamboo Brier
Aralia nudicaulis
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Bamboo Brier ...

Malus
( Brier Crabapple )
An upright, rounded tree with toothed, green leaves. Flowers in spring. Disease prone. Requires moist, well-drained soil. Prefers full sun, but tolerates partial shade.
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Earleaf greenbrier may be found growing year-round, from dry sandhills to wet hammocks. These pics were taken on a north Florida Atlantic beach.

'Greenbrier' and 'La Bar's Weeping' (also listed as 'LaBar Weeping') - These are unusual weeping forms.

Sweet Brier
Sweet Brier (A Rose Selection Rubiginosa) - It is a native Rose, but also distributed through much of Europe and Asia, and, although often planted, is scarcely ever made enough of in country places.

Brier
Sand Brier - Solanum carolinense
Brittlebush - Encelia farinosa
Broadleaf - Plantago major
Brown Betty - Rudbeckia hirta
Brown-eyed Susan - Rudbeckia hirta, Rudbeckia triloba
Buckeye (California Buckeye) - (Aesculus californica) ...

eglantine; sweetbrier Rosa eglanteria
Egyptian grass Dactyloctenium aegyptium
elecampane Inula helenium
elephant gras; Napier grass Pennisetum purpureum
elm-leaf blackberry Rubus ulmifolius
elscholtzia Elsholtzia ciliata
English elm Ulmus procera ...

Brier [English]: Caesalpinia bonduc
Brierroot [English]: Erica arborea
Brigade Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Brigade'
Brigade Tomato [English]: Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Brigade'
Brigadier Hosta [English]: Hosta 'Brigadier' ...

eglanteria is commonly called the sweetbrier or eglantine rose. Its single blush pink flowers are 2 inches across, with petals surrounding golden stamens. They appear singly or in small clusters in late spring. Bright red hips follow the flowers.

Smilax hispida (Bristly Greenbrier)
3 (10)m, Bristly Greenbrier is a perennial, deciduous climber native of thickets and woods in North America.

I first saw musk mallows (Malva moschata, Zone 3) at the edge of our gravel country road and on the other side of a moss-covered, split-rail fence in a tangle of brier roses and half-wild apple trees that had grown up around an old, ...

It seems to favor the higher elevations of Greenbrier County on mainly northern facing slopes. According to Flora of West Virginia, it occurs in 16 of our 55 counties. You can tell it by the glossy, round to cordate (heart shaped) leaves 4-6cm ( 1-1.

The surveyors described the area as "low and contained cypress and briers and thickets in abundance".

briar rose, eglantine, mosqueta rose, sweet briar, sweet briar rose, sweet brier, sweet brier rose, wild rose
Family
Rosaceae ...

Field Office Guide to Plant Species
Saw Greenbrier
Smilax bona-nox L.

rubinigosa, the Applebriar or Sweetbrier Rose, likewise native to China, a major source of rosehip oil, with leaves that are even more heavily scented than its flowers; but the leaves of "Magnifica" do not have the Sweetbriar odor.

See also: Green, May, Rose, Vine, Orange