Wild Rose Explained

Wild rose is the common name of certain flowering shrubs:

• Any wild members of the Genus Rosa (see List of Rosa species), or, more especially:
  • Rosa acicularis, "wild rose", a rose species which occurs in Asia, Europe, and North America
  • Rosa arkansana, "wild prairie rose", a rose species native to a large area of central North America
  • Rosa canina, "wild rose" or "dog rose", a climbing rose species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia
  • Rosa virginiana, "Virginia rose", a rose species native to North America
  • Rosa woodsii, "wild rose" of the sagebrush steppe in the Great Basin of North America
• Genus Diplolaena:
  • Diplolaena grandiflora, an Australian flowering shrub

Wild Rose or Wildrose may also refer to:

Places

Canada

• Wild Rose, Edmonton, neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta
• Wild Rose (electoral district)
• Wild Rose, Saskatchewan
• Wildrose, North Dakota
• Wild Rose, Wisconsin, village
• Wild Rose, Richland County, Wisconsin, unincorporated community

Arts, literature, music

• Wild Rose (band), a country music performance group
• Wild Rose, a novel by American writer Deb Caletti
• Wild Roses, a painting by Vincent van Gogh
• Wild Rose, a musical by W. O. Mitchell
• "Wild Rose", a song by the Bombay Rockers
• "Wild Roses", a song by Of Monsters and Men from Fever Dream, 2019
• "Where the Wild Roses Grow", a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue
• The Wild Rose Rebellion, a rebel group from Final Fantasy II

Film and television

• Wild Rose (1939 film), a Hungarian comedy directed by Béla Balogh
• Wildrose (film), a 1984 American drama directed by John Hanson
• Wild Rose (2018 film), a British musical drama directed by Tom Harper
  • Wild Rose (soundtrack)
    • Wild Rose (musical), a stage musical based on the 2018 film
• Wild Roses (film), a 2017 Polish thriller drama directed by Anna Jadowska
• Wild Roses (TV series), a 2009 Canadian television show

Bars, brewers, beverages

• The Wildrose (bar), Seattle lesbian bar opened in 1984
• Wild Rose Brewery, a beer brewery located in Calgary, Alberta
• Wild Irish Rose, an alcoholic beverage produced by Canandaigua Wine Company

Politics

• Wildrose Party, a political party in Alberta which merged into the United Conservative Party
• Wildrose Party of Alberta, forerunner of the Wildrose Party
• Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta, a provincial political party consisting of the merging of the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta and Wexit Alberta
• Wildrose Loyalty Coalition, a political party split from the Wildrose Independence Party

Ships

• USS Wilrose II (SP-195), a United States Navy patrol vessel in service from 1918 to 1919 sometimes referred to in U.S. Navy records as "USS Wild Rose"

See also

• The Wild Rose