| Ertter 1993 | Munz 1959 | Abrams 1944 | Jepson 1936 | Erlanson 1934 | Rydberg 1918 | Watson 1885 |
| californica | californica | aldersonii californica | californica | californica | aldersonii bidenticulata brachycarpa californica corymbiflora davyi greenei johnstonii myriantha pilifera sanctae-crucis |
californica |
| nutkana var. nutkana | nutkana var. muriculata var. nutkana var. setosa |
durandii nutkana var. nutkana var. muriculata |
nutkana [var. nutkana] var. hispida |
durandii nutkana | brownii muriculata nutkana | nutkana [not known to occur California at the time] |
| pisocarpa | pisocarpa var. pisocarpa var. rivalis | pisocarpa rivalis | pisocarpa [var. pisocarpa] var. rivalis | pisocarpa | copelandii eastwoodiae pisocarpa pringlei rivalis |
pisocarpa [not known to occur in California at the time] |
| woodsii var. ultramontana | woodsii var. glabrata var. gratissima var. ultramontana | gratissima mohavensis ultramontana | woodsii var. ultramontana var. mohavensis | woodsii | chrysocarpa gratissima mohavensis puberulenta pyrifera ultramontana |
fendleri |
| bridgesii pinetorum spithamea [nomenclatural history intertwined] |
gymnocarpa var. pubescens pinetorum spithamea var. spithamea var. sonomensis |
bridgesii pinetorum sonomensis spithamea yainacensis |
gymnocarpa var. pubescens pinetorum spithamea [var. spithamea] var. sonomensis |
calvaria spithamea yainacensis | bridgesii calvaria dudleyi granulata pinetorum sonomensis spithamea yainacensis | [although described by Watson, submerged in 1885 as a dwarf form of californica] |
| gymnocarpa | gymnocarpa var. gymnocarpa | gymnocarpa | gymnocarpa [var. gymnocarpa] | gymnocarpa | bolanderi dasypoda gymnocarpa oligocarpa prionota |
gymnocarpa |
FULL CITATIONS:
Abrams, Leroy R. 1944. Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and
California. Vol II: Polygonaceae to Krameriaceae. Stanford University Press, CA.
Erlanson, Eileen W. 1930. Field observations on wild roses of the western United States. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 11: 117--135.
_______. 1932. American wild roses. The America Rose Annual 1932: 83--90.
_______. 1934. Experimental data for a revision of the North American wild roses. Botanical Gazette 96: 197--259.
Ertter, Barbara. 1993. Rosa. In: Hickman, J.C. (ed.) The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, pp. 972--973.
Munz, Philip A. 1959. A California Flora. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Rydberg, Per Axel. 1917. Notes on Rosaceae--XI. Roses of California and Nevada. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 44: 65--84.
_______. 1918. Rosa. North American Flora 22(6): 483--533.
Watson, Sereno. 1885. XIV. Contributions to American Botany. 1. A history and revision of the roses of North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 20: 324--352.