Info: Bloom / 2006-12-18 / North Shore area of Jacksonville, Florida / License: Creative Commons (cc-by-nc-3.0) (Attribution, NonCommercial)
Caption: Rosa laevigata (Cherokee Rose) is not native to the U.S., but is widely naturalized. Folklore I've come across suggests it was imported by the colonists to keep deer out of their gardens. The rose grows so tall that deer (supposedly) can't jump it, and
