Syn. Rosa palustris x rugosa

ROSA x SPAETHIANA Graebn.
The hybrid between R. palustris and R. rugosa, raised perhaps by Peter Graebner in Germany and described in 1902.
Upright, strong-growing shrub to 1.5 m. Leaflets 7-9, rugose, like R. rugosa, but narrower, closer in shape to R. palustris. Flowers 7-8cm across, purplish, with obovate petals. Fruits orange-red. Zone 4.
This cross was described in Gartenflora November 1902, p. 562, along with three others R. x aschersoniana (R. blanda x chinensis), R. x scharnkeana (R. californica x nitida), and R. x mariae-graebneriae (R. carolina x humilis var lucida), and a synopsis was published in the Jour. R.H.S. in 1903. The last two are still found at Sangerhausen.

Photographed by Bill Grant at the Sangerhausen Rosarium Germany