Rosa blanda var. glabra Crepin

Rosa johannensis Fernald, Rhodora 20: 94. 1918
Stem 0.3-1 m. high, the adult unarmed or setose at base, reddish, the young more or less setose or rarely with straight broad-based prickles; branchlets unarmed, glabrous, shining, usually purplish; stipules dilated, adnate, 1.5-3 cm. long, glabrous except the ciliate margin, somewhat glandular-dentate, the free portion lance-ovate; petiole and rachis glabrous or glabrate, unarmed; leaflets 5-9, mostly 7, oval or narrowly obovate, coarsely serrate, somewhat shining above, pale beneath, glabrous or sparsely pilose on the veins beneath, 1.5-5.5 cm. long; flowers solitary or corymbed; pedicels 1-3 cm. long, glabrous; hypanthium glabrous, subglobose, without a neck, rounded at base, in anthesis 5-9 mm. in diameter, in fruit 1-1.5 cm. in diameter, orange-red; sepals sparingly glandular, lance-ovate, caudate-appendaged, after anthesis divergent or reflexed, persistent, the blade 0.9-1.4 cm. long, the appendage 1.2-4 cm. long; petals roseate, 2.5-3.5 cm. long; styles distinct, persistent, not exserted; achenes borne in the bottom and on the sides of the hypanthium.
Type locality: Van Buren, Maine.
Distribution: Banks of the St. John River and tributaries, New Brunswick and Maine.