Prairie Rose

Prairie Rose may refer to:

A number of bushy flowering plants:

  • Rosa arkansana (Wild Prairie Rose)
  • Rosa virginiana (Virginia Rose)
  • Rosa blanda (Smooth Rose)

Other things:

  • Prairie Rose, North Dakota
  • Prairie Rose State Games, a North Dakota athletic event
  • Prairie Rose No. 309, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada

Famous quotes containing the words prairie and/or rose:

    To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    The northern sky rose high and black
    Over the proud unfruitful sea,
    East and west the ships came back
    Happily or unhappily....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)