Rosa arvensis Huds. FIELD ROSE
A trailing shrub with low, arching branches, often scrambling over hedges, up to 2 m. Prickles hooked. Leaflets 5 –7, 1 – 3.5 cm long, ovate or ovate elliptic, glabrous or pubescent on the ribs beneath. Flowers 1 – 6 together, 3 – 5 cm across, well scented. Pedicels with stalked glands. Sepals less than 1 cm, ovate, acuminate, not leafy at the apex. Styles glabrous, united. Fruit small, red, usually globose. Native of western and southern Europe, from Iceland to northern Spain, eastwards to Germany and Greece, Flowering from May to July. This is the only member of the synstylae native to the British Isles, where it is commonest in the south, especially on chalk and limestone, but very rare in Scotland. Zone 5, will survive down to –25°C

Growing wild in Somerset UK.