Website/Catalog  (2018)  
 
Rosa carolina Linnaeus subsp. carolina
Rosa aucuparia Rydberg; R. carolina var. grandiflora (Baker) Rehder; R. carolina var. villosa (Best) Rehder; R. humilis Marshall; R. lyonii Pursh; R. parviflora Ehrhart; R. serrulata Rafinesque
Description

Book  (May 1998)  Page(s) 74-75.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa hudsoniana salicifolia ('Willow-Leaved Hudson Rose') Description... petals 5, of an attractive darkish pink... This rose was sent by Du Pont, who confused it with Rosa carolina, whereas others have confused it with R. blanda... We have dedicated this rose, overlooked until now, to the celebrated English navigator Hudson who discovered the Bay which bears his name and where the rose grows naturally. It is very common in nurseries and comes easily from seed, flowering in the third year...

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 103.  
 
R. carolina 'Glandulosa' (Crép.) Farw. (R. parviflora glandulosa Crép., R. mexicana Wats. non Willd., R. serrulata Raf.) - with glandular leaflets, cultivated since 1902.

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 437.  
 
R. c. glandulosa (Crép.) Rehd., var. Lfts doubly glandular-serrate and rachis glandular-hispid or stipiatate-glandular. Ont. and Mass. to Fla. and n. Mex. K.S.174 (as R. humilis). (R. serrulata Raf., R. parviflora var. g. Crép.) Cult. 1902.

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 71.  
 
Hudsoniana Thory (variety of carolina L. 1753) [ploidy] 28

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 78.  
 
serrulata Raf. (synonym of carolina var. glandulosa Rehd.) [ploidy] 28

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 552.  
 
Pennsylvanie (?) ? ? ; flesh-coloured, single, medium size. = R. carolina simplex ?

Book  (1907)  Page(s) 500.  
 
John Kunkel Small
26. Rosa serrulata Raf. Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys. 5: 218. 1820.
Rosa parviflora glandulosa Crépin, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 15: 68. 1876. 
Rosa parviflora setigera Crépin, Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 15: 68. 1876. 
Rosa mexicana S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 354. 1882. Not R. mexicana Willd. 1825. 
Stem slender, terete, glabrous, 3–10 dm. high, bristly, especially the young shoots, armed with slender infrastipular prickles, which are straight, terete, 4–8 mm. long; stipules adnate, about 1 cm. long, narrow, glabrous or slightly pubescent, strongly glandular-ciliate on the margins and often glandular on the back; petioles and rachis glandular-hispid, otherwise glabrous or nearly so, the free portion of the petioles 3–10 mm. long; leaflets usually 5, rarely 3 or 7, lance-elliptic or rarely oval, 1-4 cm. long, acute at both ends, light-green, glabrous or nearly so and somewhat shining above, often paler, glabrous or slightly pubescent on the veins and sometimes glandular beneath, sharply serrate with gland-tipped teeth, some of which are often denticulate or glandular-ciliate; flowers solitary; peduncles 1–3 cm. long, more or less glandular-hispid; hypanthium globose or slightly depressed, glandular-hispid, in fruit 8–12 mm. broad; sepals lanceolate, glandular-hispid on the back, tomentose within, caudate-acuminate, 1.5–2.5 cm. long, some of them usually with lanceolate or subulate appendages, after anthesis reflexed and soon deciduous; petals rose-colored, 1.5–2.5 cm. long; styles distinct, persistent, not exserted; achenes inserted in the bottom of the hypanthium. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Highlands and Catskills, New York. 
DISTRIBUTION: Massachusetts to Ontario, Iowa, Texas, and Florida; Coahuila and Nuevo León. 

Website/Catalog  (1893)  Page(s) 6.  
 
Pensylvanie: Fl. moy. Arb. tr. vig., érigé.

Magazine  (1879)  Page(s) 157.  
 
Rosa caroliniana L. Meenan, Nat. Fl. Un. St. — PI. glabre, à feuilles aiguillonnées, lancéolées, à fleurs roses auxquelles succèdent des fruits velus, turbinés, rouges, glanduleux.