Book  (2018)  Page(s) 534.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa agrestis Savi
...western, central and southern Europe, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, central and southern Russia, Crimea, Caucasia, northwestern Africa and Cyprus. In our country [Turkey] spreads in Kırklareli, Tekirdağ, Istanbul, Bilecik and Balıkesir regions....

Article (magazine)  (2009)  Page(s) 30.  
 
R. agrestis Savi   Source RJBM [Réal Jardin Botanico Madrid] Chromosome Number 28

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 532.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa agrestis Savi. Acker-Rose, Rosier agreste, Rosa delle siepi. Description...2n= (35) 42. R.sepium Thuill.

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 185.  
 
R. agrestis S. Europe 1878. Description and cultivation... related to R. eglanteria to which it is similar in many respects except that the foliage is without scent until the leaves are crushed...

Magazine  (1997)  Page(s) 10. No. 13..  
 
Michael Gibson. Wild Roses of Britain.
R. agrestis, the Narrow Leaved Sweet Briar, is very local in its distribution on the chalk downs, and has pale pink or nearly pure white flowers in June and July. The leaflets are much narrower than those of the Sweet Briar, though just as deeply veined, but they lack the scent glands. The oval hips are smooth, losing their sepals early. Even less frequently to be seen and then only in the southern counties is R. elliptica. It is even possible that it is now extinct in Britain, and it closely resembles (or resembled) R. agrestis but is more erect in habit, and has broader, more hairy leaves. The flowers are small, no more than 1 - 1 1/2 in (3-4cm) in diameter, white to pale pink, and quite scentless.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 502.  
 
R. agrestis Species, pale pink or whitish, (R. sepium Thuillier); Allied to R. eglanteria; Cultivated 1878. Description.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 133.  
 
location 146/16, 150/3, R. agrestis Savi, Ackerrose, Caninae, Europe, North Africa, 1878, light pink to white, single, small, late-blooming, vigorous, broad, branched, 1-2.5 m, medium green small matte-glossy foliage, 5-7 leaflets, orange-red medium size matte-glossy to glossy glandular ovoid to pear-shaped fruit, extended persistent sepals

Book  (1984)  Page(s) 80.  
 
Rosa agrestis / Rosa agrestis Savi /R. sepium Thuill. = Section Caninae. Europe entière mais rare dans le nord et l’est, présent également en Afrique du Nord. Cultivé depuis 1878. …feuilles = 5 ou 7 folioles, oblongues à oblongues-obovales, base souvent cunéiforme – fleurs = 2 à 4cm de diamètre, isolées à ternées. La gracilité des tiges contraste avec leurs aiguillons puissants, larges et en crochet. Les fleurs sont rose blafard ou blanchâtre, les fruits ovoïdes allongés et rouge orangé…

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 264.  
 
R. agrestis Savi Shrub 1-2 M high, branches slender, prickles strong, broad, hooked; leaflets 5-7; hairy to nearly bald; flowers 1-3, blush or whitish, pedicels without glands; fruits oblong, orange-red. 2n=35 Native to Europe.

Book  (1969)  
 
Inland there is a fine flora about Lewes with some unusual features. Lewes race-course, Mount Caburn and Mount Harry are among the best places. On the lower slopes of Mount Caburn the Scarce Sweetbriar, Rosa agrestis, is more abundant than in any other place in Britain. For about a mile it is the most common rose, and it is difficult to suggest any reason why it should thrive here and yet be so scarce else where".

[Lewes is in the south-east of England roughly 90km south from London and 10km from the coast.]