Macartney's Rose

Rosa bracteata, commonly known as the Macartney rose, is a species of rose native to southern China and Taiwan that has become invasive in parts of the United States following its introduction as an ornamental plant. It is the only wild species in the section Bracteatae of the genus Rosa. In 2026, a chromosome-scale genome assembly of Rosa bracteata was published, providing a genomic resource for rose evolution and breeding studies.