A Hybrid Confederate Rose

   This is an iPhone  photo taken of a hybrid Confederate Rose at my neighbors today.  The flower opens pink to red, and then turns red.  This is a hybrid of the real Confederate Rose which opens in the fall.  It would tell the cotton growers when it was time to pick/harvest the cotton.  This flower blossoms all summer long, so it can't tell the growers when to harvest.
   The real Confederate rose only flowers in the early to mid fall.  It is white and then turns red.  The story goes that it did aid in determining harvest.  After the Civil War, the southerners would say that it turned red for all the blood shed during the war.