and Rosa arvensis Huds..[1] It was used repeatedly as parent for hybrids produced by Henri Antoine Jacques, gardener to King Louis Philippe I of France.

Its distribution encompasses mainland Greece, some Aegean islands (including Crete), the Adriatic coast of the Balkans, Italy, the islands in the Western Mediterranean, some coastal areas of the Iberian peninsula and France (up to 700 m in the Maritime Alps, and northwards up to the southernmost parts of Brittany), in the north of Morocco and Algeria, and in more isolated instances in the Atlas Mountains and in European Turkey.

It is a bushy shrub that can reach 1.5 meters high, growing in hedges or forming thickets.

The leaflets, lanceolate oval, shiny on their upper surface, glabrous, with tight edges, are 2 to 5 cm long.

The white, simple, slightly fragrant flowers, 3 to 5 cm in diameter, are grouped together in sparse corymbs.