Common Name:  Multiflora Rose
Scientific Name:  Rosa multiflora
Plant Origin:  Japan, Korea, northern China






  • Reduces nutrition for migrating and over-wintering birds and other wildlife by replacing nutritious fruits from native plants with its less nutritious fruits.

  • Alters the natural succession from fields to deciduous trees to hardwood forest by dispersing seeds to open fields and taking over resources.

  • Uses space, water, sunlight, and nutrients for its own growth, leaving little or none for native species.