Rosoideae

The rose subfamily Rosoideae consists of more than 850 species, including many shrubs, perennial herbs, and fruit plants such as strawberries and brambles. Only a few are annual herbs.

Rosoideae
Rosa rubiginosa, eglantine rose
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Subfamily:	Rosoideae Juss. ex Arn.
Tribes
Colurieae Potentilleae Roseae Rubeae Sanguisorbeae Ulmarieae

The circumscription of the Rosoideae is still not wholly certain; recent genetic research^[1] has resulted in several changes at the genus level and the removal from Rosoideae of some genera (notably Cercocarpus, Cowania, Dryas and Purshia) previously included in the subfamily.

Genera

• Acaena – bidibidis
• Agrimonia – agrimonies
• Alchemilla – lady's mantles
• Aphanes – parsley-pierts (sometimes in Alchemilla^[2])
• Aremonia
• Argentina – silverweeds (sometimes in Potentilla)
• Bencomia
• Chamaerhodos Bunge^[2] – little-rose
• Cliffortia
• Coluria
• Comarum (formerly in Potentilla)
• Dasiphora – woody cinquefoils (formerly in Potentilla)
• Dendriopoterium (currently in Sanguisorba^[3])
• Drymocallis – sticky cinquefoils (formerly in Potentilla)
• Fallugia^[2]
• Filipendula
• Fragaria – strawberries
• Geum – avenses
• Hagenia – African redwood
• Leucosidea – oldwood
• Marcetella
• Margyricarpus – pearlfruit
• Polylepis
• Potaninia^[2]
• Potentilla – typical cinquefoils
• Poteridium^[2]
• Poterium
• Purpusia (sometimes in Potentilla ^[4])
• Rosa – roses
• Rubus – brambles and raspberries
• Sanguisorba – burnets
• Sarcopoterium
• Sibbaldia^[2]
• Sibbaldianthe
• Sibbaldiopsis – three-toothed cinquefoil (formerly in Potentilla)
• Sieversia^[2]
• Spenceria
• Tetraglochin
• Waldsteinia (sometimes in Geum^[2])