Sweetbrier

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 ...

Sweetbrier [English]: Rosa eglanteria
Sweetbroom [English]: Scoparia dulcis
Sweetbush [English]: Bebbia juncea var. aspera Greene
Sweetbush [English]: Bebbia juncea
Sweetbush [English]: Bebbia juncea var. aspera ...

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.

or briar, name sometimes given any thorny plant, more specifically the sweetbrier, and the greenbrier. French brier, or brierroot, is a name for the root of the European white heath so widely used in the manufacture of smoking pipes.

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: Brier, Briar, Green, Rose, Heath