This is a wild rose in Cass County, July 3, 2009. This kind of pink rose is more or less native to Indiana. It's hard to classify it to species, there is some broad genetic variation in the population as you find it across North America, just call it Rosa. It doesn't seem to hybridize much with the invasive Rosa multiflora that has spread across Indiana in the last fifty years, the multiflora rose always has smaller white flowers.
This is the same Cass County wild rose bush as in the first picture, July 3, 2009.
This wild rose (Rosa sp.) is along a roadside in Henry County. Picture taken July 1, 2009. The insect inside the flower is a Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica).
Link to wild rose
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